Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 5065 Private (Pte) Frank Gordon Cairns, 14th Battalion. A porter from Coburg, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Cairns embarked with the 16th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Anchises on 14 March 1916. Later transferring to the 46th Battalion he was wounded in action. Following his recovery he rejoined his unit and on 1 April 1917, aged 27, he was killed in action. Having no known grave he is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had a 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. See also DA14441.