Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 6591 Private (Pte) Joseph Moore Stuart. A farmer from Serpentine via Inglewood, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Stuart embarked with the 21st Reinforcements, 5th Battalion on HMAT Nestor on 2 October 1916. Later becoming ill, he was evacuated to England. Following his recovery he rejoined his battalion in France and returned to Australia on 12 June 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 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.