Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 4530 Private (Pte) Guy Everard Looker. A labourer from Dunkeld, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte looker embarked with the 14th Reinforcements, 14th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Ballarat on 18 February 1916. He later transferred to the 4th Light Trench Mortar Battery where, on 26 September 1917, he was killed in action in Belgium. Having no known grave he is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres Belgium. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had a permit 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.