Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 2348 Private (Pte) George Ascough Bell, 5th Reinforcements, 24th Battalion, of St Kilda, Vic (originally of Malton, Yorkshire, England). Pte Bell enlisted on 14 July 1915 and embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Osterley on 29 September 1915. He died of wounds he received in France on 14 August 1916.
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.