Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3523 Private (Pte) William Francis Joseph Fogarty, 22nd Battalion. A painter from of West Footscray, Vic prior to enlistment, Pte Fogarty, then aged sixteen, embarked aboard with the 8th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Afric on 5 January 1916 along with his brother 3525 Pte John Fogarty . After transferring to the 5th Pioneer Battalion, he was evacuated to England having been wounded in action at Ypres in Belgium. On 14 October 1917 he died from these wounds, aged 18, and was buried in the Brookwood Military Cemetery, England. Pte John Fogarty returned to Australia on 22 July 1919. 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. See also DA13133.