Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Group portrait including 1992 Private (Pte) John Patrick Walsh, 59th Battalion (position unknown). A boot salesman from North Sydney, NSW prior to enlistment, Pte Walsh embarked with the 3rd Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Port Lincoln on 4 May 1916. Later transferring to the 57th Battalion he was killed in action on 21 July 1918 and was buried in the Ribemont Communal Cemetery Extension, 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 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.