Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 2022 Private (Pte) Phillip Athol Fargher, 22nd Battalion. A railway employee from of South Yarra, Vic prior to enlistment, Pte Fargher embarked with the 3rd Reinforcements from Melbourne aboard HMAT Anchises on 26 August 1915. Later transferring to the 60th Battalion, he was killed in action on 19 July 1916 at Fleurbaix, France, aged 25, and is commemorated on the VC Corner Australian Cemetery Memorial, Fromelles, France. 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.