Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of A J Anderson, probably 2108 Private (Pte) Albert Joseph Anderson, 21st Battalion. A grocer from Malvern, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Anderson embarked with the 4th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Hororata on27 September 1915. Whilst serving in France, he was wounded in action on two separate occasions. Due to the severity of his second wound, he returned to Australia on 6 December 1917 and was medically discharged. 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.