Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3315 Driver (Dvr) Robert James Lindsay, 6th Field Company Engineers. A grocer from Balwyn, Victoria prior to enlistment, Dvr Lindsay embarked from Sydney on HMAT Ceramic on 24 November 1915. Following his arrival in Egypt he was diagnosed as suffering from diabetes and returned to Australia for medical discharge. Following his admission to the 11th Australian General Hospital he went into a diabetic coma and died on 12 August 1916. He was buried in the Box Hill General Cemetery, Victoria. His brother, 3153 Pte William John Lindsay, 7th Battalion, was killed in action on 4 October 1917. 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.