Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 6708 Private (Pte) George Francis Abraham, 6th Battalion and an unidentified soldier (positions unknown). A labourer from Port Fairy, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Abraham embarked with the 22nd Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Ulysses on 25 October 1916. Later transferring to the 63rd Battalion and then to the 61st Battalion, he was gassed and evacuated to England. He returned to Australia on 9 December 1918. 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.