Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 2429 Private Robert John Trigg, 29th Battalion from West Alberton, Victoria. A 26 year old farmer prior to enlisting on 21 August 1915, he embarked for overseas with the 4th Reinforcements from Melbourne on 14 March 1916 aboard HMAT Anchises. While undertaking further training in Egypt and England, he was promoted to Corporal and then reverted to Private on four separate occasions before being confirmed as a Corporal on 19 February 1917. He arrived in France on 14 March 1917 and after being promoted to Sergeant (Sgt) on 30 August 1917, he was wounded in action near Ypres, Belgium on 22 October 1917. He was evacuated to England for medical treatment but died of his wounds in the 1st Eastern General Hospital, Cambridge on 29 December 1917. Sgt Trigg is buried in the Cambridge Borough Cemetery, England. [See also image DA14320] 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.