Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 6065 Private (Pte) Arthur Edward Perry, 5th Battalion. A water ganger from Mildura, Vic prior to enlistment, Pte Perry embarked with the 19th Reinforcements from Melbourne aboard HMAT Themistocles on 28 July 1916. Originally reported as missing in action, it was later determined that he had been killed in action, in Belgium, on 20 September 1917, aged 28. He is commemorated on the Menin Gate 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.