Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of Lieutenant (Lt) Douglass George Morrison, 68 Squadron Australian Flying Corps from East Malvern, Victoria. A 21 year old orchardist prior to enlistment in the AIF on 5 October 1916, he embarked for overseas with C Flight, 2 Australian Flying Squadron from Melbourne on 25 October 1916 aboard HMAT Ulysses. He was wounded in action on 13 October 1917 and died of those wounds at the 3rd Casualty Clearing Station on 29 October 1917. Lt Morrison is buried in the Grevillers British Cemetery, France. 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. The names are transcribed as they appear in the notebooks.