Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 5145 Acting Corporal Charles Joseph Carlson, 24th Battalion (left) along with 5144 Private (Pte) Walter Horace Forster, also 24th Battalion and 26709 Gunner (Gnr) Harold Mervyn Nash, 12th Field Artillery Brigade (positions unknown). A railway porter from Drysdale, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Carlson embarked with the 13th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Themistocles on 28 July 1916. Later reverting to the rank of Private and transferring to the 23rd Battalion he was wounded in action and returned to Australia on 29 May 1919. Pte Forster, a carpenter from Mordialloc, Victoria prior to enlistment, also embarked with the 13th Reinforcements. Whilst serving in France, he was killed in action on 3 May 1917, aged 20, and is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial. Gnr Nash, a farmer from Drysdale, Victoria prior to enlistment embarked with the 5th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Port Sydney on 7 September 1916. Twice wounded in action, he returned to Australia on 21 July 1918. 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. See also DA15458