Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 10976 Private Frederick Daniel Rundle, 6th Field Artillery Brigade from Launceston, Tasmania. An 18 year old carpenter prior to enlisting on 1 October 1915, he embarked for overseas with the 2nd Reinforcements from Melbourne on 5 January 1916 aboard HMAT Afric. He served on the Western Front with the 22nd and the 5th Field Artillery Brigades and was wounded in action in Belgium on 23 October 1917. He died of wounds on 25 October 1917 and is buried in the Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium. 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 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. The names are transcribed as they appear in the notebooks.