Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3044 Private (Pte) Stanley James Campbell. A grocer from Burnley, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Campbell embarked with the 7th Reinforcements, 21st Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Wiltshire on 18 November 1915. He later served with the 60th Battalion and then the 14th Field Artillery Brigade where he was appointed as a Driver. Subsequently wounded in the face he was evacuated to England. Due to the severity of his wound which resulted in the loss of his chin and a fractured mandible, he returned to Australia on 6 May 1919 and was medically discharged. 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.