Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 7883 Private (Pte) Pte John Henry Morton. A clerk from Oakleigh, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Morton embarked with the 1st Australian General Hospital Special Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Nestor on 11 October 1915. Later serving with the 17th Field Ambulance and then the 11th Field Ambulance he was promoted to Temporary Sergeant. He subsequently served with the 11th Field Ambulance and following the Armistice he was appointed to the rank of Second Lieutenant. He later served with the 39th Battalion with the rank of Lieutenant and was granted permission to tour America for instruction in agriculture and hog raising. He returned to Australia on 12 October 1920 and was placed on the Reserve of Officers list on 1 June 1921and then on the retired list on 27 November 1943. He then went on to serve as a Sergeant with the Volunteer defence Corps during the Second World War. 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. See also DASEY2334.