Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 4288 Private (Pte) John Peoples. A labourer from Terang, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Peoples embarked with the 13th Reinforcements, 8th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Demosthenes on 29 December 1915. Following his arrival in Egypt he became dangerously ill with gastric enteritis and was admitted to hospital. Following his recovery he joined the 58th Battalion in France and, on 24 November 1916 aged 19, he was killed in action. Having no known grave he is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial. 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. See also DA12824.