Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of Trigg H C, believed to be 3652 Private (Pte) Harold Charles Trigg, 22nd Battalion from East Geelong, Victoria. A 19 year old apprentice with prior service in the Militia with the 69th Infantry prior to enlisting in the AIF on 20 July 1915, he embarked for overseas with the 8th Reinforcements from Melbourne on 5 January 1916 aboard HMAT Afric (A10). After arriving in Egypt, he transferred to the 57th Battalion and then two months later transferred to the 58th Battalion. He went with the latter to France in June 1916 and was wounded in action at Fromelles on 19 July 1916. Pte Trigg was evacuated to England for medical treatment and then returned to Australia and discharged medically unfit for further service on 17 April 1917. 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.