Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Copy of a photograph of an original cross marking the grave of Captain (Capt) John Gladstone MacKenzie, a surgeon from Mordialloc, Victoria, prior to enlistment. Capt Mackenzie embarked from Melbourne with the 8th Field Ambulance aboard HMAT Ascanius (A11) on 10 November 1915. He was killed in action on 21 May 1916 and buried in the Erquinghem-Lys Churchyard Extension, 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.