Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Outdoor portrait of 118 Lance Corporal (LCpl) Cuthbert Elsdon, 9th Light Horse Regiment. A labourer prior from Adelaide, SA prior to enlistment, L Cpl Elsdon embarked with the rank of Private with A Company from Melbourne aboard HMAT Armadale on 20 January 1915. He was killed in action on 19 April 1917 and was initially buried near to where he fell. Following the Armistice his remains were reportedly exhumed and re-interred in the Gaza War Cemetery, however subsequent investigation by the Imperial War Graves Commission showed this to be incorrect and he is commemorated on the Jerusalem Memorial. 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.