Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 6091 Private (Pte) Thomas Gordon James Riley, 14th Battalion. A labourer from Caramut, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Riley embarked with the 19th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Miltiades on 1 August 1916. Whilst serving in France he was declared as missing in action and a subsequent Court of Enquiry determined that he had been killed in action at Bullecourt on 11 April 1917, aged 19. Having no known grave, he is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial. See also DA15522. 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