Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 2794 Private (Pte) Bernard Robert Hetherton, 29th Battalion. A labourer from Healesville, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Hetherton embarked with the 5th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Anchises on 14 March 1916. Later transferring to the 1st Pioneer Battalion, he was wounded in action and evacuated to England. Due to the severity of his wound, he returned to Australia on 24 January 1816 and was admitted to No 11 Australian General Hospital where his left leg was amputated. Later developing septicaemia, he died on 28 June 1918 and was buried in the Healesville Cemetery, Victoria. 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.