Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3566 Private (Pte) Neville Dudley Keath. A grocer from Queenscliff, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Keath embarked with the 8th Reinforcements, 22nd Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Afric on 5 January 1916. He later transferred to the 58th Battalion and on 28 April 1918, aged 21, he was killed in action and buried in the Daours Communal Cemetery Extension, Daours, France. His brother 3822 Pte Clifford John Keath, 20th Battalion was killed in action on 5 August 1916. 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.