Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 858 Private (Pte) James Gladstone Lang. A farmer from Glengarry, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Lang embarked with C Company, 29th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Ascanius on 10 November 1915. Later wounded in the left leg and right foot he was evacuated to England. Following his recovery he re-joined his battalion and later transferred to the 32nd Battalion. Before returning to Australia he took the opportunity to get married and returned to Australia on 15 January 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.