Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 4154 Temporary Corporal (Cpl) Lewis Rowland Mace, 24th Battalion. A native of Kent, England, Cpl Mace was a maltster from North Brighton, Vic prior to enlistment and embarked from Melbourne with the 10th Reinforcements on HMAT Wiltshire on 7 March 1916. Later reverting to the rank of Private he served in France and, following his promotion to Lance Corporal, was wounded in action and invalided to England. Following his recovery he rejoined his unit and was promoted to Corporal. On 9 October 1917, aged 30, he was killed in action. Having no known grave, 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.