Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3519 Private (Pte) Leslie George Frew, 59th Battalion. A boiler attendant from Northcote, Vic prior to enlistment, Pte Frew embarked with the 8th Reinforcements, 22 Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Afric on 5 January 1916. Initially transferring to the 57th Battalion he then transferred to the 59th Battalion where, on 3 August 1916, aged 20, he died of wounds received in action at Pozieres and was buried in the Nunhead (All Saints) Cemetery, England. 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.