Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Portrait of J J Kennedy copied for the Cobram Honour Roll. The soldier is probably 2889 Private John Joseph Kennedy, a labourer from Cobram, Victoria, prior to enlistment. Pte Kennedy embarked from Melbourne with the 20th Reinforcements, 4th Light Horse, aboard HMAT Port Sydney (A15) on 7 September 1916. During his service he transferred to the 2nd Light Horse. Serving with the 22nd Corps, Light Horse Regiment, Kennedy was killed in action on 17 April 1918 . He has no known grave and is commemorated at the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. 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.