Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 4136 Private William Charles Holding, 21st Battalion, a 20 year old grocer from Yarra Glen, Victoria when he enlisted and embarked for overseas with the 10th Reinforcements from Melbourne on 7 March 1916 aboard HMAT Wiltshire. While serving with the 21st Battalion, he was wounded in action on 24 December 1916 near Fricourt, France and later died of those wounds on 16 January 1917. He is buried at the Etretat Churchyard Extension, 26 kilometres north of Le Havre, France. [See also images DA14097 and DA14099] 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.