Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 4177 Private (Pte) Arthur William Donohue, 5th Battalion. A labourer from Daylesford, Vic prior to enlistment, Pte Donohue embarked with the 13th Reinforcements from Melbourne aboard HMAT Demosthenes on 29 December 1915. On 20 September 1917, aged 21, he was killed in action at Menin Road in the Ypres area of Belgium and is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial. 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.