Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3456 Private (Pte) Charles Bannon. A labourer from Essendon, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Bannon embarked with the 8th Reinforcements, 21st Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Demosthenes on 29 December 1915. Following his arrival in the Middle East he transferred to the 60th Battalion and was admitted to hospital suffering from tonsillitis. On 19 July 1916 he was killed in action near Fromelles and was buried in the Rue-Du-Bois Military Cemetery, Fleurbaix, 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.