Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 4305 Private (Pte) Cecil Francis Fogarty, 12th Battalion. A letter carrier from New Norfolk, Tas prior to enlistment, Pte Fogarty embarked with the 13th Reinforcements from Melbourne aboard HMAT Afric on 5 January 1916. On 22 August 1916 he was killed in action at Mouquet Farm in the Somme area of France, aged 21, and was buried in the Courcelette British Cemetery, France. 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.