Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 2631 Private (Pte) William Alfred Daborn. Originally from Barnes, England, Pte Daborn was a butler from West Melbourne prior to enlistment and embarked with the 6th Reinforcements, 58th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Nestor on 2 October 1916. While serving in France he was evacuated to England suffering from hemiplegia. On 22 May 1919, aged 42, he succumbed to his illness and was buried in the Melcombe Regis Cemetery, Weymouth, England. 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 DA16383 & DA16388.