Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 4294 Private William Bennett Quayle, 14th Battalion from Ballarat, Victoria. A 19 year old fellmonger prior to enlisting on 10 July 1915, he embarked for overseas with the 13th Reinforcements from Melbourne on 29 December 1915 aboard HMAT Demosthenes. While serving on the Western Front with the 4th Pioneer Battalion, he was killed in action near Albert, France on 24 November 1916 and is buried in the Guards' Cemetery, Lesboeufs, 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. The names are transcribed as they appear in the notebooks.