Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3134 Private (Pte) Timothy Halloran. A labourer from East Pakenham, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Halloran embarked with the 7th Reinforcements, 23rd Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Commonwealth on 26 November 1915. Later transferring to the 59th Battalion he was reported as missing in action in France. It was later established that he had been killed in action on 19 July 1916 and, having no known grave, is commemorated on the VC Corner Australian Cemetery and Memorial, Fromelles, 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. See also DA12570A.