Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 2736 Private (Pte) Robert Charles Miller. A boot maker from Northcote, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Miller embarked with the 6th Reinforcements, 22nd Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Ulysses on 27 October 1915. Later posted to the 60th Battalion he was reported as missing in action. It was subsequently discovered that he had been killed in action on 19 July 1916. 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 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.