Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3542 Private (Pte) Ernest George Hargreaves, 22nd Battalion, a 28 year old labourer from Geelong, Victoria when he enlisted and embarked for overseas on 5 January 1916 with the 8th Reinforcements from Melbourne aboard HMAT Afric. Pte Hargreaves served with the 58th Battalion in the Middle East and in France where he was killed in action on 19 July 1916 at Fleurbaix. His name is engraved on the VC Corner Memorial, Fromelles, France with others who have no known grave. 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. The names are transcribed as they appear in the notebooks. See valso DA12738.