Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3689 Private (Pte) Allen James Boyd, 59th Battalion. A clerk from East Bairnsdale, Victoria, prior to enlistment in the 7th Battalion on 15 July 1915, Pte Boyd embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Ceramic on 23 November 1915 for Egypt. On 26 February 1916 he was transferred to the 59th Battalion which relocated to the Western Front, France, in June 1916. Pte Boyd was killed in action on 19 July 1916 near Armentieres, France. He was aged 20 years. 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. See also DA12265.