Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait for Lieutenant (Lt) Griggs, probably Lt Albert Griggs, a civil engineer of Hobart, Tasmania, and born in Meridian, Mississippi, USA. Lt Griggs embarked from Melbourne with C Flight, No. 2 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps (AFC) aboard HMAT Ulysses (A38) on 25 October 1916. Lt Griggs was killed in action in France on 23 November 1917. 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.