Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of2744 Private (Pte) Louis Leeds Moulton. A carpenter from Korumburra, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Moulton embarked with the rank of Acting Sergeant with the 6th Reinforcements, 22nd Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Ulysses on 27 October 1915. He later transferred to the 57th Battalion and was promoted to Sergeant. Subsequently wounded in the left thigh he was evacuated to hospital. On 26 July 1916 he succumbed to his wound and was buried in the Calais Southern Cemetery, 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. The notebooks contain brief details, usually a surname or unit name, for each negative.