Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of Second Lieutenant (2nd Lt) Frederick Henry Naylor, 21st Battalion from Malvern Victoria. He had previously served as a Corporal in the 4th (Imperial) Contingent to South Africa, leaving Australia on 1 May 1900 only to be invalided back home on 7 October 1900. After recovering, he returned to South Africa and rejoined his unit on 23 January 1901 before returning to Australia with his unit on 12 July 1901. He was a 36 year old plantation manager when appointed a 2nd Lt in the AIF on 16 April 1915 and he embarked for overseas with the 21st Battalion Headquarters from Melbourne on 10 May 1915 aboard HMAT Ulysses. After transferring to the Camel Corps on 1 February 1916, he was appointed Captain and Commander of A Company Camel Corps on 1 April 1916 for seven months. He was subsequently promoted to Captain on 3 November 1916 and was killed in action on 19 April 1917 near Gaza. Captain Naylor is commemorated on the Jerusalem War Memorial and was posthumously Mentioned in Despatches (MID). 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.