Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Portrait of B Millar copied for the Cobram Honour Roll. The soldier is probably 437 Driver (Dvr) Alexander Bruce Millar, born at Cobram, Victoria, and a drover from Mordialloc, Victoria, prior to enlistment. Dvr Millar embarked from Brisbane with B Company, 25th Battalion, aboard HMAT Aeneas (A60) on 29 June 1915. Millar transferred to the 2nd Machine Gun Company and returned to Australia on 5 April 1919. During the First World War the Cobram and District Soldiers Fund initiated a project to create a Cobram Honour Roll. It was to include portraits of servicemen who had links to the Cobram area. The Fund arranged for portraits to be copied by the Darge Photographic Company at its Collins Street Studio, Melbourne. Around 100 copy prints were supplied by the Darge company but it is not known if the roll was ever constructed. In the 1930s, the Australian War Memorial purchased 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.