Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3046 Private (Pte) James Carter. Originally from Wandsworth, England, Pte Carter was a farm labourer from Melbourne, Victoria and embarked with the 7th Reinforcements, 21st Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Wiltshire on 18 November 1915. Later transferring to the 60th Battalion he was killed in action near Pozieres on 3 August 1916, aged 20. He was buried in the Rue-du-Bois Military Cemetery, Fleurbaix, France. 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.