Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of Patrick John Kearney, probably 4566 Driver (Dvr) Patrick John Kearney who enlisted as David Jones. A labourer from Bendigo, Victoria, Kearney embarked with the 6th Reinforcement, 1st Divisional Ammunition Column from Melbourne aboard HMAT Berrima (A35) on 28 June 1915. While serving with the 10th Field Artiullery Brigade in Belgium he was killed in action on 8 August 1917, aged 29. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ypres Menin Gate Memorial. See also DA09717. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had a 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. The names are transcribed as they appear in the notebooks.