Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 4384 Private (Pte) Guildford Charles Nobes. A storekeeper from Moorina, Tasmania prior to enlistment, Pte Nobes embarked with the rank of Acting Lance Corporal with the 13th Reinforcements, 15th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Demosthenes on 29 December 1915. He was later appointed as Lance Corporal and on 21 December 1916, aged 32, he was killed in action and buried in the Bernafay Wood British 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.