Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of Greene P, believed to be 5380 Private (Pte) Percival Ernest Greene, 14th Battalion from Moonambel, Victoria. Pte Greene originally enlisted on 31 August 1914 and embarked for overseas with A Company, 6th Battalion from Melbourne on 19 October 1914 aboard HMAT Hororata (A20). Shortly after arriving in Egypt, he was returned to Australia and was discharged medically unfit on 1 April 1915. He was a 27 year old student when he re-enlisted on 8 July 1915 and embarked for overseas with the 17th Reinforcements of the 14th Battalion from Melbourne on 4 April 1916 aboard HMAT Euripides (A14). Following further training in England, he proceeded to France where he joined the 14th Battalion on 12 August and was promoted to Lance Corporal (L Cpl) on 29 October 1916. L Cpl Greene was killed in action near Noreuil, France on 11 April 1917 and is 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.