Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 4178 Private (Pte) Alfred George Dudley. A miner from Corindhap via Rokewood, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Dudley embarked with the 13th Reinforcements, 14th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Demosthenes on 29 December 1915. Later wounded in the right arm he was evacuated to England. After re-joining his battalion he was posted as missing in action. A subsequent court of enquiry determined that he had been killed in action near Bullecourt on 11 April 1917. Having no known grave he is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had a 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.