Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3104 Private (Pte) William Henry Gard, 22nd Battalion. A miner from Granya via Trafalgar, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Gard embarked with the 7th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Commonwealth on 26 November 1915. Later transferring to the 5th Pioneer Battalion, he was wounded in action and evacuated to England. Following his recovery, he rejoined his unit and returned to Australia on 13 April 1919. 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.