Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 2004 Private (Pte) Hector Ernest Hill, 59th Battalion. A grocer’s carter from Dulwich Hill, NSW prior to enlistment, Pte Hill embarked with the 3rd Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Port Lincoln on 4 May 1916. Later transferring to the 60th Battalion he was wounded in action and evacuated to England. Subsequently developing septo-meningitis he died on 29 October 1918 and was buried in the Fovant (St George) Churchyard, Wiltshire, England. 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 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 DA14791 and DA14792.