Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 2617 Private (Pte) Alfred Edward Moore. A van driver from Jolimont, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Moore embarked with the 4th Reinforcements, 29th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Anchises on 14 March 1916. He was later admitted to hospital suffering from an infected middle ear. After re-joining his battalion he was invalided to England suffering from trench fever. Also suffering from a re-occurrence of his ear infection he returned to Australia on 7 July 1918. 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.