Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3574 Private John Alexander Lennon, 29th Battalion from Coburg, Victoria. A 25 year old labourer prior to enlisting on 5 May 1916, he embarked for overseas with the 8th Reinforcements from Melbourne on 1 August 1916 aboard HMAT Orsova. While serving in France, he was wounded in action on 3 August 1917 and evacuated to England for medical treatment. He returned to France on 14 October 1917 and was killed in action on 29 July 1918. Pte Lennon is buried in the Mericourt L'abbe Communal Cemetery Extension, 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 1930's, 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.