Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 1944 Private (Pte) Robert Miller, 59th Battalion. A miner from Corrimal, NSW prior to enlistment, Pte Miller embarked with the 3rd Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Port Lincoln on 4 May 1916. Later he served briefly with the 60th and 61st Battalions. Following his transfer back to his original unit he became ill with broncho pneumonia and on 5 November 1918, he succumbed to his illness and was buried in the Abbeville Community Cemetery Extension, France. 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 DA14361.