Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 8942 Sergeant Charles Arthur Lewis. A grazier prior to enlisting, he embarked with the 2nd Division Ammunition Column aboard HMAT Port Macquarie (A39) at Melbourne on 16 November 1915. After training in Egypt he arrived in France in March 1916. He served with several artillery units throughout the course of the war and returned to Australia in February 1919. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had the concession 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 a unit name, for each negative.