Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 4621 Private (Pte) James Sydney Tillotson, 14th Battalion from Carlton, Victoria. A 28 year old miner prior to enlisting on 12 August 1915, he embarked for overseas with the 14th Reinforcements from Melbourne on 18 February 1916 aboard HMAT Ballarat. After further training with the 14th Battalion in Egypt, he deployed with them to France in June 1916. On 18 September 1916 he was wounded in action at Dickebush, France and evacuated to England for medical treatment. After recovering, he re-joined the Battalion in Belgium on 1 October 1917 and just over two weeks later, on 16 October 1917, he was killed in action at Broodseinde. Pte Tillotson is buried in the Dochy Farm New British Cemetery, Belgium. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had the 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.