Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3796 Private (Pte) Edmund Dwyer. A stationer from Brighton, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Dwyer embarked with the 12th Reinforcements, 5th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Ceramic on 23 November 1915. Following his arrival in Suez he transferred to the 46th Battalion and was admitted to hospital suffering from pyaemia. On 5 June 1916 he succumbed to his illness and was buried in the Ismailia War Cemetery, Egypt. His brother 1941 Pte Jack Dwyer died of wounds at Gallipoli on 11 August 1915. 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 DA12268A.