Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Portrait of Lieutenant (Lt) James Lionel Montague Sandy, wearing the colour patch of the 1st Field Artillery. A company secretary from Burwood, NSW prior to enlistment, Sandy had originally served overseas as a Lieutenant in the 1st Field Artillery Brigade. After becoming seriously ill he returned to Australia and was discharged in August 1916. He re-enlisted in October the same year and-embarked with Headquarters, No. 2 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps (AFC), on.25 October 1916. While serving with No. 3 Squadron he was killed in action in France on 17 December 1917, aged 32. 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 P10814.017.003).