Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Portrait of Lieutenant (Lt) Peel, probably Lt John Clifford Peel, a medical student from Inverleigh, Victoria, prior to enlistment. Lt Peel embarked from Melbourne with No. 1 Special Draft, Australian Flying Corps (AFC) aboard HMAT Nestor (A71) on 21 November 1917. Lt Peel was killed in action in France on 19 September 1918. 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. The names are transcribed as they appear in the notebooks.