Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 1975 Private Thomas Makin, 14th Battalion from Korumburra, Victoria. A 22 year old miner prior to enlisting in the AIF on 14 January 1915, he embarked for overseas with the 5th Reinforcements from Melbourne on 17 April 1915 aboard HMAT Hororata. He was killed in action on 8 August 1915 at Kaiajik Dere, Gallipoli and his name is inscribed on the Lone Pine Memorial at Gallipoli with others who have no known grave. 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 1930's, 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.