Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3080 Private (Pte) William Henry Miles, 14th Battalion from Nhill, Victoria. A 24 year old labourer prior to enlistment on 15 July 1915, he embarked for overseas with the 10th Reinforcements from Melbourne on 16 October 1915 aboard HMAT Port Lincoln. He joined the 12th Field Artillery Brigade in Egypt and went with them to France in June 1916. Pte Miles died on 12 November 1918 from broncho-pheumonia at the 41st Stationary Hospital, Amiens, France and is buried in the Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery, Somme, France. 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.