Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3153 Private (Pte) William John Lindsay. A ticket sorter with the Victorian Railways prior to enlistment, Pte Lindsay embarked with the 7th Reinforcements, 22nd Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Commonwealth 0n 26 November 1915. Later transferring to the 7th Battalion he was wounded in the shoulder and evacuated to hospital. Following his recovery he re-joined his battalion and was posted as wounded and missing in action. It was subsequently determined that he had been killed in action on 4 October 1917, aged 20. Following the Armistice his body was recovered and interred in the Aeroplane Cemetery, Ypres, Belgium. His brother, 3315 Driver Robert James Lindsay 6th Field Company Engineers, died of illness on 12 August 1916. 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.