Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 408 Private Archibald Reuben Moore 23rd Battalion. Enlisting under the name of Arthur Moore, Pte Moore was a shearer from Strathbogie, Victoria prior to enlistment and embarked with B Company from Melbourne on HMAT Euripides on 15 May 1915. After serving at Gallipoli he was deployed to France where, on 4 August 1916, aged 24, he was killed in action. Having no known grave, he is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial. 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.