Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 5006 Private (Pte) Arthur St John Colliver. A driver from South Ballarat, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Colliver embarked with the 14th Reinforcements, 29th Battalion (the 4th Sportsmen’s Unit) from Melbourne on HMAT Ulysses on 22 December 1917. On 30 September 1918 he was killed in action and, having no known grave, is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had a 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. See also DA19057.