Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 5915 Gunner (Gnr) Christopher Jones. Originally from Whistaple, Kent, England, Pte Jones was a seaman prior to enlistment and embarked with the 12th Reinforcements, 1st Field Artillery Brigade from Melbourne on HMAT Wandilla on 9 November 1915. He was later wounded in action and evacuated to the 1st Anzac Medical Dressing Station where on 30 October 1916, aged 23, he succumbed to his wounds and was buried in the Dartmoor Cemetery, Picardie, France. 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. See also DASEY2103.