Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3814 Private (Pte) George Flanagan 5th Battalion, and an unidentified soldier (positions unknown). A caretaker from East Malvern, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Flanagan embarked with the 12th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Ceramic on 23 November 1915. On 9 August 1918, aged 35, he was killed in action near Villers-Bretonneux and buried nearby. Following the Armistice his remains were exhumed and re-interred 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 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.