Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 738 Private (Pte) Harry Edmond Duplantier, 38th Battalion. Originally from London, England, Pte Duplantier was a farmer from Cowangie, Victoria prior to enlistment, and embarked with B Company from Melbourne on HMAT Runic on 20 June 1916. Later promoted to Corporal, he returned to Australia on 14 January 1919. 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 DA15764.