Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Copy of a portrait of or for L Owen or C W Owen. The soldier is probably 103 Private (Pte) Charles William Owen, a hospital attendant from Prahran, Victoria, whose mother was L Owen (Letitia). Pte Owen embarked from Sydney with A Squadron, 1st Light Horse Field Ambulance, aboard HMAT Southern (A27) on 23 September 1914. While serving overseas he became ill with sarcoma of the liver and returned to Australia on 17 August 1916. Pte Owen died at No. 8 Australian General Hospital in Fremantle, WA, on 30 September 1916, aged 26. He was given a military funeral and was buried in the Fremantle Cemetery. 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.