Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 4289 Private (Pte) Arthur Edward Postlethwaite (also known as Arthur Ellrick Postlethwaite) 14th Battalion. A farmer from St Arnaud, Vic prior to enlistment, Pte Postlethwaite embarked with the 13th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Demosthenes on 29 December 1915. Later transferring to the 46th Battalion he was wounded in action. After rejoining his unit he was killed in action on 14 February 1917 and is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had the concession 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.