Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 4591 Private (Pte) Francis Winter. A labourer from Langhorne Creek, SA prior to enlistment, Pte Winter had originally embarked with the 4th Reinforcements, 29th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Anchises on 14 March 1916, however he failed to re-embark after the ship arrived in Adelaide. He later re-embarked with the 11th Reinforcements 21st Battalion from Melbourne on RMS Orontes on 29 March 1916. While serving in France he was wounded in action and on 18 November 1916, he succumbed to his wounds and was buried in the Mericourt-L’Abbe Cemetery, Picardie, France. His brother 2043 Pte George Winter, 23rd Battalion was awarded the Military Medal. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had a 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.