Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of Lieutenant (Lt) Frederick Charles Dundas, 29th Battalion. A native of Sussex, England and a salesman from Fairfield Park, Vic prior to enlistment, Lt Dundas embarked with the 4th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Anchises on 14 March 1916. On 20 July 1918 he died from illness and was buried in the Stratford Sub-Castle Cemetery, Salisbury. 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.