Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 1979 (Pte) Private Edward Trenwith, 59th Battalion from North Sydney, NSW. An 18 year old farmer prior to enlisting on 17 January 1916, he embarked for overseas with the 3rd Reinforcements from Melbourne on 4 May 1916 aboard HMAT Port Lincoln. While undergoing further training in Egypt and England, he transferred to the 57th Battalion and deployed with them to France on 12 November 1916. Two weeks later, he transferred to the 60th Battalion. Pte Trenwith was killed in action near Noreuil, France on 9 May 1917 and is buried in the Noreuil Australian Cemetery. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had the concession to take photographs at the Broadmeadows and Seymour army camps during the First World War. In the 1930s, the Australian War Memorial purchased the original glass negatives from Algernon Darge, along with the photographers' notebooks. The notebooks contain brief details, usually a surname or unit name, for each negative. The names are transcribed as they appear in the notebooks.