Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 6961 Private (Pte) Leslie Breasley, 3rd Battalion. A labourer from Marrar, NSW, prior to enlistment on 26 October 1916, Pte Breasley embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Benalla on 9 November 1916 for Devonport, England. He joined his battalion in France on 21 May 1917. Pte Breasley was killed in action near Ypres, Belgium, on 20 September 1917. He has no known grave and his death is recorded on the Ypres, Menin Gate, Memorial, Belgium. He was aged 23 years. 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.