Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Group portrait Lieutenant (Lt) Rosenthall and members of the Reserve Staff. Rosenthall (below Reserve sign) is probably Second Lieutenant Samuel Rosenthal, a merchant from Melbourne, Victoria, prior to enlistment. Rosenthal embarked from Melbourne with the 6th Reinforcements, 58th Battalion, aboard HMAT Nestor (A71) on 2 October 1916. He was promoted to Lieutenant and later killed in action in Belgium on 25 September 1917. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had a 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. The names are transcribed as they appear in the notebooks.