Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 2023 Private (Pte) William Malcolm, 57th Battalion. A labourer from Thirlmere, NSW prior to enlistment, Pte Malcolm embarked with the 3rd Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Port Lincoln on 4 May 1916. Later promoted to Lance Corporal, he was killed in action on 25 February 1918, aged 24, and was buried in the La Plus Douve Farm Cemetery, Wallonie, Belgium. 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.