Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 2456 Private (Pte) Robert Charles Fisher, 12th Battalion, A farmer of Leith, Tas. Pte Fisher embarked with the 7th Reinforcements on HMAT Persia from Melbourne on 10 August 1915. Later transferring to the 52nd Battalion he returned to Australia on 27 July 1917 classified as medically unfit. On 12 November he died of tuberculosis and was buried in the Hobart (Cornelian Bay) Public Cemetery. 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.. See also DA09777.