Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of Morrow F, believed to be 2723 Private (Pte) Frederick Morrow, 23rd Battalion from Carisbrook, Victoria. A 19 year old labourer prior to enlisting on 3 August 1915, he embarked for overseas with the 6th Reinforcements from Melbourne on 27 October 1915 aboard HMAT Ulysses (A38). After arriving in Egypt, he transferred to the 58th Battalion and then to the 5th Pioneer Battalion. He went with the latter to France in June 1916. In July 1917 he was taken ill and evacuated to England where he remained for the rest of the war. On 6 March 1918, he married Alberta Vivian Tribble and she accompanied him when he returned to Australia arriving on 10 February 1920. Pte Morrow's brother, 2722 Pte Andrew James Morrow joined on the same day and they sailed overseas together. See image DASEY2179. 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.