Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 4303 Private (Pte) Herbert James Davidson. A labourer from Triabunna, Tasmania prior to enlistment, Pte Davidson embarked 13th Reinforcements, 12th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Afric on 5 January 1916. Later wounded in the thigh he was evacuated to England. Following his recovery he re-joined his battalion and on 7 October 1917, aged 21, He was killed in action and was buried in the Tyne Cot Cemetery, Passchendaele, France. His brother, 1181 Corporal Thomas William Davidson, also served in the AIF. 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.