Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3307 Private (Pte) Edward Joseph Hannan and two unidentified women. A clerk from Hawthorn, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Hannan embarked with the rank of Acting Corporal with the 7th Reinforcements, 23rd Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Commonwealth on 26 November 1915. He later transferred to the 58th Battalion and was promoted to Sergeant. On 19 July 1916, aged 28, he was killed in action near Fleurbaix and, having no know grave, is commemorated on the VC Corner Cemetery and Memorial, Fromelles, 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. See also DASEY2401.