Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3851 Private (Pte) Ernest Edward Harridge, 5th Battalion. A carpenter of Kerang, Vic, prior to enlistment, he embarked with the 12th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Ceramic (A40) on 23 November 1915. He was killed in action on 20 September 1917 and is buried at Hooge Crater Cemetery Zillebeke, Belgium. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had the concession 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. The names are transcribed as they appear in the notebooks.