Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of Lieutenant (Lt) John Danks Brown, 22nd Battalion. A salesman from Melbourne, Victoria prior to enlistment, Lt Brown embarked with the 10th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Wiltshire on 7 March 1916. After serving in France, he returned to Australia on 13 February 1917 suffering from chronic synovitis of the right knee and was medically discharged. 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. See also DA15310 and DA15311.