Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 1345 Private (Pte) Thomas Francis Denham. A slaughterman from North Geelong, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Denham embarked with the 7th Reinforcements, 13th Light Horse Regiment from Melbourne on HMAT Ceramic on 23 November 1915. He later mustered as a Gunner and served with the 6th Divisional Ammunition Column (DAC) and then the 6th Field Artillery Brigade before joining the 2nd DAC where he was re-mustered as a Driver. On 20 October 1917, aged 21, he was killed in action while serving in Belgium and was buried in the Reninghelst New Military Cemetery, Flanders, Belgium. 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.