Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of Captain (Capt) Lewis Joseph Kimber. A professional soldier from Toowoomba, Queensland prior to enlisting in the AIF, Capt Kimber embarked with the Headquarters, 31st Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Wandilla on 9 November 1915. He later served with the 46th Battalion and then the 4th Australian Divisional Base Depot where he was appointed as adjutant and evacuated to England suffering from bronchitis. Following his recovery he re-joined the 46th Battalion and was wounded in the hip and right foot. Subsequently evacuated to England his foot was amputated and he returned to Australia on 9 October 1917 and was discharged. In spite of his injury he later served in the Second World War as a Lieutenant-Colonel with the Headquarters, 1st District Command. 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.