Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3662 Private (Pte) Henry Noble Walker. A survey hand from Barham, NSW prior to enlistment, Pte Walker embarked with the 8th Reinforcements, 23rd Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Afric on 5 January 1916. Following his arrival in the Middle East he was diagnosed as suffering from spinal meningitis and admitted to the No. 4 Auxiliary Hospital. On 4 March 1916 he succumbed to his illness and was buried in the Cairo War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt. 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.