Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3467 Private (Pte) Charles Sutton. A railway employee from Moe, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Sutton embarked with the 9th Reinforcements, 58th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Port Melbourne on 16 July 1917. Later allotted the service number 3467B he transferred to the 3rd Pioneer Battalion. On 24 August 1918 he was killed in action at the Somme, aged 29, 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.