Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Portrait of Lieutenant (Lt) Linton, 21st Battalion, probably Second Lieutenant (2nd Lt) Richard Vivers Linton. A commercial traveller from Middle Brighton, Victoria prior to enlistment, 2nd Lt Linton embarked with Headquarters, 21st Battalion from Melbourne aboard HMAT Uysses (A38) on 10 May 1915. During his service Linton was promoted to the rank of Captain and also served with the 57th Battalion. He returned to Australia on 7 April 1919. Captain Linton was the son of Colonel Richard Linton, who died at sea after the ship on which he was travelling was torpedoed in the Aegean Sea on 2 September 1915. 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. The names are transcribed as they appear in the notebooks.