Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3066 Private (Pte) Alexander John Maule, 7th Battalion from Port Melbourne, Victoria. An 18 year old soap worker prior to enlisting in the AIF on 12 July 1915, he embarked for overseas with the 10th Reinforcements from Melbourne on 29 September 1915 aboard RMS Osterley. After joining the 7th Battalion in Egypt in January 1916, he was transferred to the 59th Battalion in February and arrived in France on 29 June 1916. Pte Maule was killed in action on 19 July 1916 near Sailly, France and his name is inscribed on the VC Corner Australian Cemetery and Memorial, Fromelles, France with others who have no known grave. 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 1930's 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 a unit name, for each negative. The names are transcribed as they appear in the notebooks.