Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 1917 Private (Pte) Victor William Marshall Homer, 57th Battalion. A fuel man from Coraki, NSW prior to enlistment, Pte Homer embarked with the 3rd Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Port Lincoln, on 4 May 1916. On 27 February 1918 he was killed in action, aged 29, and was buried in the La Plus Douve Fram 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.