Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 4223 Private (Pte) Harry William Johnson. A jeweller from Albert Park, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Johnson embarked with the 13th Reinforcements, 6th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Demosthenes on 29 December 1915. Later wounded in the back and side he was evacuated to England. Following his recovery he re-joined his battalion and was reported as wounded and missing in action. It was subsequently determined that he had been killed in action on 10 August 1918. Having no known grave he is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, 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.