Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 26630 Driver (Dvr) George William Baker, 2nd Field Artillery Brigade. A farm hand from Walpeup via Ouyen, Victoria prior to enlistment, Dvr Baker embarked with the 19th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Port Sydney on 7 September 1916. Later transferring to the 3rd Field Artillery Brigade (FAB) and then to the 8th FAB, he returned to Australia on 11 May 1919. 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.