Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 950 Private (Pte) Edgar Henry Fyvie, 13th Light Horse Regiment. A Salvation Army officer from Carlton, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Fyvie embarked with the 3rd Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Kyarra on 20 August 1915. While serving at Gallipoli, he was killed in action on 11 December 1915 and buried in Brown’s Dip. Following the Armistice his remains were exhumed and re-interred in the Lone Pine Cemetery, Gallipoli, Turkey. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had a permit 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.