Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 4002 Private (Pte) Frank Harvey Armstrong. A labourer from Collingwood, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Armstrong initially embarked for overseas service with the service 1162 with the 1st Reinforcements, 23rd Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Euripides on 8 May 1915. Following his arrival he contracted a disease and returned to Australia on 2 September 1915. He subsequently re-embarked with the 9th Reinforcements, 23rd Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Warilda on 8 Feb 1916. On 4 August 1916, aged 20, he was killed in action at Pozieres, France. 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 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.