Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3801 Private (Pte) Arthur Henry Elliot. Originally from Sussex, England Pte Elliott was a gripman from Melbourne, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Elliott and embarked with the 12th Reinforcements, 5th Battalion on HMAT Ceramic on 23 November 1915. He was killed in action near Pozieres on 25 July 1916 and buried on the battlefield. Following the Armistice his grave could not be located and he is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had a permit 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.