Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3715 Private (Pte) Leslie Coxhell, 14th Battalion. A railway porter from Mornington, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Coxhell embarked with the 12th Reinforcements, 14th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Ceramic on 23 November 1915. Later transferring to the 46th Battalion and was twice admitted to hospital suffering from rheumatism and cardiac weakness. On 9 August 1916, aged 20, he was killed in action in the vicinity of Pozieres and buried nearby. Following the Armistice his remains were exhumed and re-interred in the Pozieres British Cemetery Ovillers-La-Boisselle, France. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had a permit 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.