Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of G Ridding (believed to be a mis-transcription of T Ridding). 5180 Private Thomas Ridding, 7th Battalion was a 37 year old labourer from Piccaninny Creek via Gunbower, Victoria, when he enlisted and embarked for overseas with the 16th Reinforcements from Melbourne on 1 April 1916 aboard HMAT Suffolk. He joined the 57th Battalion in France on 21 July 1916, was killed in action on 22 September 1916. Private Ridding is buried in the Rue-du-Bois Military Cemetery, Fleurbaix, five kilometres south west of Armentieres, 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.