Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3340 Private (Pte) Albert Jacobs, 22nd Battalion. A labourer from East Brunswick, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Jacobs embarked with the 7th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Commonwealth on 26 November 1915. Later transferring to the 57th Battalion and then to the 60th Battalion, he was wounded in action. On 19 August 1916, aged 19, he succumbed to his wounds and was buried in the Calais Southern Cemetery, France. 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. See also DASEY1290.