Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3253 Private (Pte) Edward Yarram Winchelsea Simmons, 23rd Battalion. A bank clerk from Stawell, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Simmons embarked with the 7th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Commonwealth on 26 November 1915. Later transferring to the 58th Battalion, he was promoted to Lance Corporal and, on 15 July 1916, aged 20, was killed in action at Fleurbaix, France and was buried in the Rue Petillon Cemetery, Fleurbaix. 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.