Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Group portrait of ten soldiers including A M Pearse, probably 418 Lance Corporal (L Cpl) Arthur Mueller Pearce, a clerk from East Melbourne, Victoria, prior to enlistment. Pearce is probably in the front row, far right. L Cpl Pearce embarked from Melbourne with D Company, 7th Battalion, aboard HMAT Hororata (A20) on 19 October 1914. He was killed in action on 25 April 1915 at Gallipoli. 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. See also DAOD0561 and DAOD0965.