Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 4355 Private (Pte) Athol Gordon Robinson. A labourer from Triabunna, Tasmania prior to enlistment, Pte Robinson embarked with the 13th Reinforcements, 12th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Afric on 5 January 1916. Later reported as missing in action, a subsequent court of enquiry established that he had been killed in action, aged 18, between 19 and 22 August 1916. 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.