Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

P. Palmer. [Register caption].
Studio portrait of 722 Private Leonard Peterson. A labourer from Middle Brighton, Victoria, Peterson enlisted under an alias, Peter Palmer, on 29 January 1915. Pte Palmer embarked aboard HMAT Ulysses with the 21st Battalion on 8 May 1915. On 25 November 1915 he was killed in action at Shrapnel Valley, Gallipoli Peninsula. He was 25 years old.
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