Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 2907 Gunner (Gnr) Albert Nusser, 8th Battalion, of Melbourne, Victoria (originally of Saltley, Birmingham, England). A 19 year old labourer prior to enlisting on 5 July 1915, he embarked for overseas with the 9th Reinforcements from Melbourne on 15 September 1915 aboard HMAT Makarini. After serving in Gallipoli, Egypt and France, he embarked to return to Australia on 28 March 1919 aboard HMAT Port Macquarie. On the night of 8/9 May 1919, he was lost overboard and not missed until the morning. 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. The names are transcribed as they appear in the notebooks.