Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of A Crawford, probably 11693 Mechanical Transport Driver (Dvr) Arthur Crawford, 3rd Divisional Supply Column. A bank clerk from Murrumbeena, Victoria prior to enlistment, Dvr Crawford embarked from Melbourne on HMAT Afric on 5 June 1916. He later transferred to the 4th Mechanical Transport Company and, following the Armistice, he returned to England where he developed pleurisy and rheumatism. He returned to Australia on 15 May 1919. 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 1930's, 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.