Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Portrait of Corporal Edward Joseph Kernan, 5th Battalion of Pascoe Vale, Victoria. He enlisted in July 1915 and spent time as a musketry instructor before eventually embarking with the 24th Reinforcements and the rank of 2nd Lieutenant (2nd Lt) on HMAT Ballarat, departing Melbourne on 19 February 1917. He died of wounds on 20 September 1917, aged 25 years. He, along with all others aboard, survived the sinking of the Ballarat when it was torpedoed in the English Channel on 25 April 1917. 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 a unit name, for each negative.