Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 6770 Private Harold Gillanders, 6th Battalion from St Kilda, Victoria. A 22 year old butcher prior to enlisting in the AIF on 1 November 1915, he embarked for overseas with the 22nd Reinforcements from Melbourne on 25 October 1916 aboard HMAT Ulysses. He was wounded in action near Zillebeke, Belgium on 20 September 1917 and evacuated to England for medical treatment. After rejoining his unit in France on 21 April 1918, he was killed in action at Foucaucourt on 23 August 1918 and is buried in the Heath Cemetery, Harbonnieres, France. 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 1930's, 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.