Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3231 Private (Pte) Thomas Faulks, 29th Battalion. A farmer from Korong Vale, Vic prior to enlistment, Pte Faulks embarked with the 7th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Berrima on 4 July 1916. After temporarily transferring to the 66th Battalion, he rejoined his original unit and was wounded in action. Whilst being evacuated to England on HMAT Warilda, the ship was torpedoed and sunk by an enemy submarine. Pte Faulks' body was never recovered and he is believed to have drowned and he is commemorated on the Hollybrook Memorial, Southampton, England. 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.