Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Portrait of Lieutenant (Lt) G N Trask, probably Lt Gordon St Norman Neville Trask, a clerk from Brunswick, Victoria, prior to enlistment, who had served as a Lieutenant with the Citizen Forces. He embarked from Melbourne with the June 1917 Reinforcements, Australian Flying Corps (AFC), aboard HMAT Runic (A29) on 21 June 1917. Trask returned to Australia on 4 July 1919. His father was Captain Frederick Herbert Trask, who worked for the Defence Department, Victoria. 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.