Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Outdoor portrait of Rich Donold, probably 4205 Private Donald Rich, a labourer from Romsey, Victoria, prior to enlistment. Pte Rich embarked from Melbourne with the 10th Reinforcements, 21st Battalion, aboard HMAT Wiltshire (A18) on 7 March 1916. Pte Rich was killed in action in France on 21 April 1918. 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. The names are transcribed as they appear in the notebooks.