Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 2634 Private (Pte) William James Flinn. A miner from Freeburgh via Bright, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Flinn embarked with the 6th Reinforcements, 23rd Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Ulysses on 23 October 1915. Later wounded in the right buttock he was invalided to England. Following his recovery he re-joined his battalion and was promoted to Corporal. Subsequently wounded in the left thigh he was again invalided to England. He later re-joined his battalion and on 19 May 1918 he was killed in action and buried in the Mericourt-l’Abbe Communal Cemetery Extension, Picardie, 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.