Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3800 Private (Pte) Silas King. A confectioner from Elsternwick, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte King embarked with the 12th Reinforcements, 7th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Ceramic on 23 November 1915. Later transferring to the 58th Battalion he was wounded in the face, neck, chest, elbow and both thighs and evacuated to England. Following his recovery he re-joined his battalion and on 11 March 1917 he was killed in action and buried in the Bulls Road Cemetery, Flers, France. 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.