Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 1716 Private (Pte) Archibald Gawley. A labourer from Lima East, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Gawley embarked with the 2nd Reinforcements, 29th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Demosthenes on 29 October 1915. He later served with the 4th Pioneer Battalion where he was allotted the service number 1716A. Subsequently suffering from an inguinal hernia he was invalided to England. Following his recovery he transferred to the Australian Army Medical Corps Details and returned to Australia on 3 March 1919. 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..