Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 2623 Private (Pte) Lawrence Coates and an unidentified woman. A labourer from Yannathan, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Coated embarked with the 6th Reinforcements, 22nd Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Ulysses on 27 October 1915. He later transferred to the 7th Battalion and on 18 August 1916, aged 22, he was killed in action at Pozieres. Having no known grave he is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonnux Memorial. 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 DASEY2404.