Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 256 Private (Pte) David Henry Herd, 29th Battalion. A railway employee from Kurumburra, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Herd embarked with A Company from Melbourne on HMAT Ascanius on 10 November 1915. While serving in France he was wounded in action on two separate occasions but remained on duty. On 9 August 1918, aged 25, he was killed in action near Harbonnieres, France and was buried in the Heath Cemetery, Picardie, 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.