Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3184 Private (Pte) Frederick Henry Alexander McCulloch, 23rd Battalion. A miner from Warrandyte, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte McCulloch embarked with the 7th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Commonwealth on 26 November 1915. Later transferring to the 58th Battalion and then to the 59th Battalion, he was declared missing in action. It was later established that he had been was killed in action on 19 July 1916. He is commemorated on the VC Corner Cemetery and Memorial, Pozieres, 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.