Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3967 Private (Pte) Alfred Williams. A blacksmith from Long Gully, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Williams embarked with the 12th Reinforcements, 5th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Ceramic on 23 November 1915. Later transferring to the 2nd Machine Gun Company and then to the 1st Machine Gun Battalion, he was killed in action on 13 April 1918 and was buried in the Hazebrouck Communal Cemetery, France. His brother, 41 Sapper John Henry Williams, 4th Field Company Engineers was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal. 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