Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 1755 Private (Pte) Clarence Powell, 57th Battalion. A blacksmith from Elsternwick, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Powell embarked with the 2nd Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Euripides on 4 May 1916. Later posted as missing in action, a subsequent court of enquiry determined that he had been killed in action on 19 July 1916, aged 24, and had been buried in no-man’s land near Pozieres. Following the Armistice his remains were exhumed and re-interred in the Y Farm Military Cemetery, Bois-Grenier, France. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had a concession to take photographs at the Broadmeadows and Seymour army camps during the First World War. In the 1930's, 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