Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of Lieutenant (Lt) Morrison, probably Lt Douglass George Morrison, an orchardist from East Malvern, Victoria, prior to enlistment. Lt Morrison embarked from Melbourne with C Flight, No. 2 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps (AFC) aboard HMAT Ulysses (A38) on 25 October 1916. Lt Morrison died of wounds on 29 October 1917 at the 3rd Casualty Clearing Station in 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 DAAV00054.