Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Outdoor portrait of John A Vipont, probably 4241 Private (Pte) John Augustine Vipont, a salesman from West Brunswick, Victoria, prior to enlistment. Pte Vipont embarked from Melbourne with the 10th Reinforcements, 21st Battalion, aboard HMAT Wiltshire (A18) on 7 March 1916. He was killed in action in France on 24 August 1916. 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.