Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 6073 Private James Robert Thomas Neighbour, 14th Battalion from Beech Forrest, Victoria. A 26 year old labourer prior to enlistment on 20 March 1916, he enlisted as James Neighbour and embarked for overseas with the 19th Reinforcements from Melbourne on 1 August 1916 aboard HMAT Miltiades. While serving in France, he was killed in action on 11 April 1917 near Bullecourt and is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France with others who have no known grave. [See also image DA 16098.] 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 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. The names are transcribed as they appear in the notebooks.