Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 32346 Gunner Alfred Lobb, 14th Field Artillery Brigade from Surrey Hills, Victoria. A 23 year old saddler prior to enlisting in the AIF on 16 October 1916, he embarked for overseas with the 10th Reinforcements from Melbourne on 14 February 1917 aboard RMS Osterley. While serving with the 1st Divisional Ammunition Column, he was appointed a Saddler. After also serving with the 1st Field Artillery Brigade, he returned to Australia on 1 August 1919. 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.