Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 4209 Private (Pte) Roy Phillip Henry and an unidentified soldier (position unknown), A box maker from South Melbourne, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Henry embarked with the 13th Reinforcements, 5th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Demosthenes on 29 December 1915,. He later transferred to the 46th Battalion and was wounded in the left eye. Following his recovery he re-joined his battalion and was admitted to the 12th Field Ambulance and then the 41st Stationary Hospital suffering from broncho-pneumonia. It was here on the 26 October 1918, aged 21, that he succumbed to his illness and was buried in the Dury Hospital Military Cemetery, Dury-les-Amiens. His remains were subsequently exhumed and re-interred in the Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery. 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. The notebooks contain brief details, usually a surname or unit name, for each negative.