Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3503 Private (Pte) George Young Davis, 23rd Battalion. A house painter from Oakleigh, Vic prior to enlistment, Pte Davis embarked with the 8th Reinforcements from Melbourne aboard HMAT Afric on 5 January 1916. Later transferring to the 59th Battalion, on 25 July 1916 he died, aged 36, at the 8th Stationary Hospital, Boulogne, France from wounds received in action at Fromelles. He was buried in the Wimereux Communal Cemetery, France. 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.