Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 6736 Private (Pte) Charles Colin Cameron, 6th Battalion from Castlemaine, Victoria. A 21 year old iron worker prior to enlisting on 12 July 1916, he embarked for overseas with the 22nd Reinforcements from Melbourne on 25 October 1916 aboard HMAT Ulysses (A38). Following further training in England, he proceeded to France where he joined the 6th Battalion on 11 May 1917. Pte Cameron was killed in action at Zillebeke Bund, Belgium on 20 September 1917 and is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial at Ypres, Belgium with others who have no known grave. 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.