Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 10817 Driver (Dvr) Richard Cave and 10826 Dvr Herbert Sydney Creswell (positions unknown), both of the 3rd Divisional Train, Army Service Corps. Dvr Cave, a salesman from Port Melbourne, Victoria prior to enlistment and Dvr Creswell, a chauffeur from Sorrento, Victoria prior to enlistment, embarked with the 22nd Company from Melbourne on HMAT Persic on 3 June 1916. Dvr Cave returned to Australia on 23 March 1919. Dvr Creswell transferred to the 3rd Australian Motor Transport Company and returned to Australia on 2 June 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.