Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of H Holt, possibly 6814 Driver (Dvr) Harry Holt, 4th Field Artillery Brigade from Willaura, Victoria. A 21 year old farm labourer prior to enlisting on 20 July 1915, he embarked for overseas with the 12th Battery from Melbourne on 18 November 1915 aboard HMAT Wiltshire (A18). After a short stopover in Egypt, he arrived in France in March 1916 served on the Western Front. Dvr Holt was wounded in action near Flers, France and died from his wounds on 9 November 1916. He is buried in the Bernafay Wood British Cemetery, Montauban, ten kilometres east of Albert, 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.