Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 7545 Private (Pte) Harold Joseph O’Donoghue. A boot maker from Burnley, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte O’Donoghue embarked with the 25th Reinforcements, 6th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Themistocles on 4 August 1917. On 23 August 1918, aged 23, he was killed in action and was buried in the Heath Cemetery, Picardie, France. 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. The notebooks contain brief details, usually a surname or unit name, for each negative. See also DA18490 and DA18524.