Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 112 Private (Pte) James Lawrence Devlin, 23rd Battalion, of Killarney, Vic. A farm labourer prior to enlistment, Pte Devlin embarked from Melbourne with A Company on HMAT Euripides on 10th May 1915. On 21st November he was killed in action at Gallipoli and buried in the Brown's Dip Cemetery. His remains were later exhumed and re-interred in the Lone Pine Cemetery, Anzac. 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.