Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 894 Private (Pte) William August Nicholson. A labourer from North Melbourne, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Nicholson embarked with C Company, 29th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Ascanius on 10 November 1915. He later served with the 2nd Battalion and, following the Armistice, was admitted to the 3rd Auxiliary Hospital suffering from influenza. On 25 January 1919, aged 29, he succumbed to his illness and was buried in the Brookwood Military Cemetery, Surrey, England. 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. See also DA12201.