Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 876 Private (Pte) Walter James Morris, 29nd Battalion. A brass fitter from Buninyong, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Morris embarked with C Company from Melbourne on HMAT Ascanius on 10 November 1915. Whilst serving in Belgium he was awarded the Military Medal “…for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty as a runner.” Later transferring to the 32nd Battalion, he returned to Australia on 13 April 1919. 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.