Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 4326 Private (Pte) Tracey James Temple. A storeman from Richmond, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Temple embarked with the 13th Reinforcements, 8th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Demosthenes on 29 December 1915. Later suffering from trench fever he was invalided to hospital. Following his recovery he re-joined his battalion and was again invalided to hospital suffering from trench feet. After recovering he again re-joined his battalion and was gassed. Due to the severity of the gas poisoning he passed away on 31 December 1917 and was buried in the Dranoutre Military Cemetery, Belgium. 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.