Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 4525 Private (Pte) James Keilor. A labourer from Woolsthorpe, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Keilor embarked with the 14th Reinforcements, 14th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Ballarat on 18 February 1916. Later serving in France with the 30th Battalion, he was promoted to Lance Corporal and returned to Australia on 8 May 1919. 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.