Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Portrait of Sergeant L Morehouse probably copied for the Cobram Honour Roll. The soldier is probably 2466 Lindsay Bartlett Chalmers Morehouse, born at Cobram and a clerk from St Kilda, Victoria, prior to enlistment. Morehouse was temporarily a Sergeant in 1916, but reverted to Private before embarking from Melbourne with the 5th Reinforcements, 46th Battalion, aboard HMAT Port Sydney (A15) on 7 September 1916. Pte Morehouse's service number was altered to 2466A. He was killed in action on 11 April 1917. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Australian Memorial, Viller-Bretonneux, France. Lindsay Morehouse's brother, 3268 Pte Murray Morehouse, served with the 29th Battalion. During the First World War the Cobram and District Soldiers Fund initiated a project to create a Cobram Honour Roll. It was to include portraits of servicemen who had links to the Cobram area. The Fund arranged for portraits to be copied by the Darge Photographic Company at its Collins Street Studio, Melbourne. Around 100 copy prints were supplied by the Darge company but it is not known if the roll was ever constructed. In the 1930s, the Australian War Memorial purchased 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. The names are transcribed as they appear in the notebooks.