Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3436 Private (Pte) Evan Nolan. A farmer from Carboor via Wangaratta, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Nolan embarked with the 9th Reinforcements, 46th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Ascanius on 11 May 1917. Later transferring to the 59th Battalion he was wounded in action and evacuated to hospital. On 20 September 1918, aged 21, he succumbed to his wounds and was buried in the St Sever Cemetery Extension, 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.