Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio Portrait of 5094 Private (Pte) Ernest William Fennell, 46th Battalion. A native of Kent, England, Pte Fennell was a baker's assistant from Melbourne prior to enlistment. He embarked with the 16th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Anchises on 14 March 1916. On 1 September 1916, aged 19, he died of wounds received in action at Pozieres, France and is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux memorial. 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.