Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Group portrait including Second Lieutenant (2nd Lt) Alexander Beatty (position unknown). A farmer from Yackandandah, Victoria prior to enlistment, 2nd Lt Beatty embarked with the temporary rank of Lieutenant with the 10th Reinforcements, 21st Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Wiltshire on 7 March 1916. Originally posted as missing in action it was subsequently confirmed that he had been killed at Mouquet Farm on 26 August 1916. Following the Armistice his remains were recovered and interred in the Pozieres British Cemetery, Picardie, France. 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. See also DA13916.