Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of Private (Pte) George Stephen Mills, a 19 year old coach driver, from Yarra Glen, Victoria, when he enlisted in the AIF. He embarked for overseas with the 10th Reinforcements from Melbourne on 7 March 1916 aboard HMAT Wiltshire and served on the Western Front. Pte Mills was killed in action on 3 May 1917 at Bullecourt, France and his name in on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial in France with others who have no known grave. [See also image DA14097] 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 1930's, 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.