Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 2864 Private (Pte) Albert Kershaw Strode, 24th Battalion. A clerk from Bendigo, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Strode embarked with the 6th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Ulysses on 27 October 1915. Later transferring to the 8th Battalion he was killed in action on 27 July 1916 at Pozieres, aged 20 and, having no known grave, is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial. 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.