Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 148 Private (Pte) Gilbert George Henry Evans, 21st Battalion. A student from Natte Yallock, Vic prior to enlistment, Pte Evans embarked with A Company from Melbourne on HMAT Ulysses on 10 May 1915. On 30 July 1916 he died of wounds received in action at Pozieres and was buried in the Becourt Military Cemetery, Becordel-Becourt, 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.