Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 4326 Private (Pte) Albert James Thomas. A draper from Maryborough, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Thomas embarked with the 13th Reinforcements, 7th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Demosthenes on 29 December 1915. He was later wounded in the left leg and invalided to England. After recovering he re-joined his battalion and on 25 February 1917, aged 22, he was killed in action and buried near where he fell at Bapaume. Following the Armistice his remains were recovered and re-interred in the Warlencourt British Cemetery, 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.