Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 4176 Private (Pte) Cecil James Coe. A labourer from Neerim, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Coe embarked with the 13th Reinforcements, 8th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Demosthenes on 29 December 1915. On 28 July 1916 he was killed in action near Pozieres, aged 22, and buried nearby. Following the Armistice his remains could not be recovered and 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.