Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 4435 Private (Pte) David McKenzie Bell, 14th Reinforcements, 7th Battalion, of Yarra Junction, Vic. Pte Bell enlisted on 28 October 1916 and embarked aboard HMAT Thermistocles on 28 January 1916. On 28 October 1916 he was killed in action at Buire in the Albert region of France. His death is commemorated at the Villers Bretonneux Memorial. His brother 4434 Hewitt Henry Bell, also of the 57th Battalion, was killed on the same day.
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.