Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 4796 Private Walter Nicholas Goss, 12th Battalion, of Eastwood, Tasmania. A milkman prior to enlistment, he embarked with the 15th Reinforcements on HMAT Ballarat on 19 February 1916. He transferred to several artillery units before becoming a driver with the 10th Field Artillery Brigade. He received a shot wound to the back on 5 April 1918 and died of these wounds on 18 April 1918. 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.