Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 1220 Private (Pte) Alexander Foreman, 23rd Battalion. A farm labourer from Ouyen, Vic prior to enlistment, Pte Foreman embarked with D Company from Melbourne on HMAT Euripides on 10 May 1915. He was killed in action 30 July 1918 near Amiens, France, aged 26 and was buried in the Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had the 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.