Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 2027 Corporal (Cpl) Simie Frankel , 24th Battalion. An importer from Melbourne, Vic prior to enlistment, Cpl Frankel embarked with the rank of Private with the 3rd Reinforcements, 29th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Ballarat on 18 February 1916. After transferring to the 24th Battalion he was promoted to Corporal and, on 15 March 1918 was killed in action in Belgium, aged 25. He was buried in the Berks Cemetery Extension, Belgium. 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.