Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 2443 Private Percival Cecil Lucas, 57th Battalion from Bridgewater, Victoria. A 24 year old grocer prior to enlisting on 20 June 1916, he embarked for overseas with the 5th Reinforcements from Melbourne on 25 September 1916 aboard HMAT Shropshire. After serving on the Western Front, he died of pneumonia on 9 December 1918 in England and is buried in the St Mary's Churchyard, Harefield, Middlesex, United Kingdom. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had the concession to take photographs at the Broadmeadows and Seymour army camps during the First World War. In the 1930's, 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.