Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of G L McCallum, probably George Lloyd McCallum, a labourer from Apsley, Victoria, prior to enlistment. 785 Private (Pte) McCallum enlisted in February 1915, however he was declared medically unfit due to dental problems, and discharged on 11 April 1915. McCallum re-enlisted on 21 June 1916 (service number 6551). Pte MCallum embarked from Melbourne with the 21st Reinforcements, 14th Battalion, aboard HMAT Nestor (A71) on 2 October 1916. He died of wounds in Belgium on 27 September 1917. George Lloyd McCallum signed one of his enlistment papers "L McCallum". See also DA08323 and DA08324. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had a permit 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.