Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 2798 Private (Pte) George Henry Grace, 7th Battalion. A carpenter from Queenscliff, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Grace had previously been unsuccessful in three previous attempts to enlist. He embarked for overseas duty with the 9th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Star of Victoria on 10 September 1915. Later transferring to the 59th Battalion, he was initially posted as missing in action and a subsequent court of enquiry determined that he had been killed in action on 19 July 1916 at Fleurbaix, France, aged 22. Having no known grave, he is commemorated on the VC Corner Australian Cemetery and Memorial, Fromelles, France. 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.