Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 6205 Driver (Dvr) Harold Elroy Gray and an unidentified woman. A labourer from Stawell, Victoria prior to enlistment, Dvr Gray embarked with the 12th Reinforcements, 1st Divisional Ammunition Column from Melbourne on HMAT Barambah on 10 December 1915. Later suffering from dysentery he was evacuated to hospital. Following his recovery he re-joined his unit and, on 8 October 1917, aged 20, he was killed in action and was buried in The Huts Cemetery, Ypres, Belgium. 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.