Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Portrait of Sergeant (Sgt) Tweedie on horseback beside the YMCA tent. He is probably 1199 Sgt James Tweedie, a horse breaker from Geelong prior to enlistment. Sgt Tweedie had served in South Africa, 1899-1902 (Boer War). He embarked from Melbourne with Headquarters, 4th Infantry Brigade, aboard HMAT Ulysses (A38) on 22 December 1914, with his brother 2000 Private John Anderson Tweedie. Sgt Tweedie died of pneumonia in Egypt on 25 July 1915. 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. The names are transcribed as they appear in the notebooks.