Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 4273 Private (Pte) John Marshall Rose. A labourer from Malmsbury, Victoria prior to Enlistment, Pte Rose embarked with the 13th Reinforcements, 5th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Demosthenes on 29 December 1915. Following his arrival in the Middle East he suffered from a broken thumb. Subsequently serving with his unit in Belgium he was killed in action on 22 September 1916, aged 22, and was buried in the Bedford House Cemetery, Ypres, Belgium. 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.