Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 9073 Private (Pte) Renfred Thomas Owen Rees, 8th Infantry Brigade Train, 18th Company Australian Army Service Corps from North Williamstown, Victoria. A 23 year old tailor prior to enlisting on 16 July 1915, he embarked for overseas on 10 November 1915 from Melbourne aboard HMAT Ascanus. Shortly after arriving in Egypt, he joined the 29th Company, Australian Army Service Corps and went with them to the Western Front. On 27 September 1917 he was wounded in action at Dickebusch, Belgium and died of wounds the next day. Pte Rees is buried in The Huts Cemetery, Dickebusch. 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.