Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of A R Fulton, either 3096 Private (Pte) Alexander (or Alexandra) Roy Fulton, 24th Battalion or 3738 Pte Arthur Rupert Fulton, 7th Battalion. A clerk from Kew, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Alexandra Fulton embarked with the 7th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Commonwealth on 26 November 1915. Later transferring to the 8th Battalion he was wounded in action. Following his recovery, he was promoted to Second Lieutenant and, on 20 September 1917, aged 25, he was killed in action at Polygon Wood and was buried in the New Irish Farm Cemetery, Ypres, Belgium. Pte Arthur Fulton, a grocer from Toolondo, Victoria prior to enlistment, embarked with the 12th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Ceramic on 23 November 1915. Later transferring to the 59th Battalion, he was reported as missing in action. A subsequent court of enquiry determined that he had been killed in action at Fleurbaix, France on 19 July 1916, aged 22 and, having no know grave, is commemorated on the VC Corner Australian Cemetery and Memorial, Fromelles, 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. See also DA12310A.