Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 1651 Private (Pte) Timothy Patrick Ahern. A woodworker from Northcote, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Ahern embarked with the rank of Acting Sergeant with the 2nd Reinforcements, 24th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Demosthenes on 16 July 1915. Later serving at Gallipoli he was promoted to Second Lieutenant. Subsequently transferring to the 54th Battalion he was promoted to Lieutenant and was killed in action on 19 July 1916, aged 22, and was buried in the Anzac Cemetery, Sailly-sur-la-Lys, France. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had a permit 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.