Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Portrait of W W Carter copied for the Cobram Honour Roll. The soldier is probably 1120 Private (Pte) William Watson Carter, a labourer who enlisted at Cobram, Victoria. Pte Carter embarked from Melbourne with the 1st Reinforcements, 6th Battalion, aboard HMAT Themistocles (A32) on 22 December 1914. He was killed in action on 25 April 1915 at Gallipoli. Pte Carter has no known grave and is commemorated on the Lone Pine Memorial. 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.