Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 4201 Private (Pte) Victor Edward Charles Gordon. A farmer from Elaine, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Gordon embarked with the 13th Reinforcements, 14th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Demosthenes on 29 December 1915. Following his arrival in Zeitoun he joined the 46th Battalion. Later wounded in the lungs he was evacuated to the 13th Field Ambulance. He was later removed to the No 3 Casualty Clearing Station where on 12 August 1916 he died from the effects of his wounds and was buried in the Puchevillers Military Cemetery. 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.