Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Portrait of an Australian Flying Corps officer, probably Lieutenant (Lt) Roy Cumestree Trout, No. 2 Squadron Australian Flying Corps (AFC). An agricultural chemist from Red Hill, Queensland prior to enlistment, Lt Trout embarked with the Headquarters Section from Melbourne aboard HMAT Ulysses on 25 October 1916. Later transferring to 69th Squadron, he was killed when his aircraft crashed while he was undergoing training at Coventry, England. He was buried in the Coventry (London Road) Cemetery, England. 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 P10814.004.005).