Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3140 Private (Pte) William Frederick Harrison. A plumber from St Arnaud, Victoria prior to enlistment Pte Harrison was due to embark with the 7th Reinforcements, 24th Battalion from Melbourne on 29 December 1915 but was listed as a deserter. He eventually embarked for overseas service with the service number 1859 with the 2nd Reinforcements, 31st Battalion from Brisbane on HMAT Kyarra on 3 January 1916. He later transferred to the 4th Pioneer Battalion with the service Number 1859A. He was briefly detached to the 184th Tunnelling Company before re-joining his unit. Shortly before the Armistice he was hospitalised suffering from influenza. After recovering he returned to Australia on 4 April 1919. 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