Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3670 Private (Pte) Joseph Arthur Yeates. An engine driver from Moonee Ponds, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Yeates embarked with the 8th Reinforcements, 23rd Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Afric on 6 January 1916. He later transferred to the 2nd Pioneer Battalion where he was wounded in the left arm. Due to the severity off his wound he passed away on 16 January 1917 and was buried in the Heilly Station Cemetery, Picardie, 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.