Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 6085 Private (Pte) Roy Street, 5th Battalion. A labourer from East Brunswick, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Street embarked with the 19th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Themistocles on 28 July 1916. Later serving in France with the 39th Battalion, he was wounded in action at Messines. On 10 June 1916, aged 18, he succumbed to his wounds and was buried in the Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension (Nord), France. 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.