Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 4417 Private (Pte) Michael Joseph Fogarty, 24th Battalion. A clerk from South Yarra, Melbourne prior to enlistment, Pte Fogarty embarked with the 11th Reinforcements from Melbourne on RMS Malwa on 21 March 1916. He was killed in action in France on 5 November 1916 aged 28, and is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial. 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.