Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 2258 Private (Pte) Stephen Thomas Symons, 57th Battalion. A labourer from Moliagul, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Symons embarked with the 4th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Orsova on 1 August 1916. Whilst serving in France he was wounded in action and, as a result of his wounds, died on 9 March 1918, aged 28, and was buried in the Trois Arbres Cemetery, Steenwerck, 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.