Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 4336 Acting Sergeant (A/Sgt) Frederick William Young, A storeman from Northcote, Victoria prior to enlistment, A/Sgt Young embarked with the 13th Reinforcements, 6th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Demosthenes on 29 December 1915. Later serving with the Australian Divisional Brigade Depot, he reverted to the rank of Private. Subsequently re-joining the 5th Battalion he was promoted to Lance Corporal and then to Corporal. He was then invalided to hospital and after recovering he was promoted to Sergeant. On 4 October 1917 he was killed in action and, having no known grave, is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, France. 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.