Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 4170 Private (Pte) Frank Warren Pinkham. A bricklayer from Collingwood, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Pinkham embarked with the 10th Reinforcements, 23rd Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Wiltshire on 7 March 1916. He was later evacuated to England suffering from carbuncles and following his recovery, rejoined his battalion. Initially reported as wounded and missing in action, a subsequent court of enquiry determined that he had been killed in action on 9 October 1917. Having no known grave he is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had a 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.