Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3255 Private (Pte) Horace Paul Sullivan, 23rd Battalion from Windsor, Victoria. A 23 year old clerk prior to enlisting on 20 July 1915, he embarked for overseas with the 7th Reinforcements from Melbourne on 26 November 1915 aboard HMAT Commonwealth. After training in Egypt with the 23rd Battalion and transferring to the 57th Battalion, he deployed to France in June 1916. He was promoted to Lance Corporal on 23 October 1916 and to Corporal (Cpl) on 7 February 1917. After being wounded in action on 25 September 1917 at Glencorse Wood, France, he rejoined the 57th Battalion on 28 October 1917. He was wounded again on 16 August 1918 near Harbonnieres, France and died of his wounds that same day. Cpl Sullivan was buried in the British Military Cemetery at Le Hamel but after the war, his grave could not be located so he is now commemorated on the Australian National Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux, France with others who have no known grave. 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. The names are transcribed as they appear in the notebooks.