Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 730 Private (Pte) Frank Rigby, 21st Battalion. A labourer from Telangatuk East, Vic prior to enlistment, Pte Rigby embarked with C Company from Melbourne on HMAT Ulysses on 10th May 1915. Later promoted to Lieutenant, he was killed in action on 4 October 1917 at Broodseinde Belgium, aged 26 and is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial. His brother Lieutenant John Samuel Thompson Rigby, also of the 21st Battalion, was killed on the same day. 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.