Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 2437 Private (Pte) Leo Joseph Power, 5th Battalion. A labourer from Branxholme, Vic prior to enlistment, Pte Power embarked with the 7th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Demosthenes on 16 July 1915. Later evacuated to England because of illness, he was transferred to the 67th Battalion and on 31 July 1917, aged 21, he died from pericarditis and was buried in the Harefield (St Marys) Churchyard, England. 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.