Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Copy of a portrait of Tredrea which had also been inserted in DACS0676A, a decorative Roll of Honour commemorative mat. The soldier is probably 3271 Private (Pte) Francis Stanley Tredrea, a tailor from Hamilton, Victoria, prior to enlistment. Pte Tredrea embarked from Melbourne with the 7th Reinforcements, 21st Battalion, aboard HMAT Wiltshire (A18) on 18 November 1915. He was killed in action on 19 July 1916 in France. He has no known grave and is commemorated at VC Corner, Australian Cemetery, Fromelles, France. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had a 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 unit name, for each negative. The names are transcribed as they appear in the notebooks. See also DACS0676A and P10789.006.