Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Outdoor portrait of a soldier named McInnis, either beside or seated in the car of photographer Algernon Darge. Also in the car is a soldier named Mason (see DAOD0634). Neither Mason nor McInnis have been further identified and their positions are unknown. The soldier standing by the car is wearing a red Geneva cross on his sleeve in image DAOD0634, indicating service with a medical unit. Darge's car features a skull and crossbones on the radiator cap. 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.