Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 4189 Private (Pte) John Naylor, 21st Battalion. A labourer from Barkstead via Wombat, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Naylor embarked with the 10th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Wiltshire on 7 March 1916. Later transferring to the 2nd Anzac Cyclist Battalion, he was wounded in action and evacuated to England. While recovering he developed influenza and double pneumonia and on 9 November 1918, aged 21, he succumbed to his illnesses and was buried in the Harefield (St Mary) Churchyard, Hillingdon, England. 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.