Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3122 Private (Pte) William O’Shea, 14th Battalion. An iron fitter from Clifton Hill, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte O’Shea embarked with the 10th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Port Lincoln on 16 October 1915. On 4 July 1916, aged 43, he died of wounds received in action at Armentieres, and was buried in the Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, Lille, 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.