Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3807 Private (Pte) Arthur Albert Dixon. A machinist from Ballarat East, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Dixon embarked with the 9th Reinforcements, 24th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Warilda on 8 February 1916. He later transferred to the 5th Field Artillery Brigade where he was re-mustered as a Gunner. Later gassed he was evacuated to England. He was later medically reclassified and re-admitted to hospital suffering from angina. He took the opportunity to get married before returning to Australia on 14 January 1919. 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.