Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 1670A Private (Pte) Arthur Leonard Ellis-Hall, 22nd Battalion. A native of Middlesex, England Pte Ellis-Hall, who served under the name of Arthur Leonard Ellis, was a labourer from Carlton, Vic, prior to enlistment and embarked with the 2nd Reinforcements from Melbourne aboard HMAT Demosthenes on 16 July 1915. After transferring to the 21st Battalion he was killed in action at the second Battle of Bullecourt, France on 3 May 1917 and is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial. 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..