Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Group portrait of 4294 Private (Pte) William Bennett Quayle (seated) and an unidentified soldier. A fellmonger from South Ballarat, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Quayle embarked with the 13th Reinforcements, 14th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Demosthenes on 29 December 1915. Later transferring to the 4th Pioneer Battalion he was killed in action on 24 November 1916, aged 20. He was initially buried in the Fleis Dressing Station Cemetery and, following the Armistice, was re-interred in the Guards Cemetery Les Boeufs, Peronne, France. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had a permit 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. See also DA12910.