Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 5228 Acting Corporal (A/Cpl) Donald Alexander Teasdale. A theological student from Sea Lake, Victoria prior to enlistment, A/Cpl Teasdale embarked with the 16th Reinforcements, 14th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Anchises on 14 March 1916. He later served as Acting Lance Corporal with the Imperial Camel Corps in Egypt and Palestine before accidently shooting himself in the foot. He returned to Australia on 8 March 1917 for medical discharge. He later e-enlisted and re-embarked for overseas service with the rank of Private and with the service no 7455 with the 25th Reinforcements, 14th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Nestor on 21 November 1917. On 30 March 1918, aged 24, he was killed in action and was buried in the Gommecourt British Cemetery No.2, Arras, France. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had a permit 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.