Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 4341 Private (Pte) Louis John Woodland also known as John Louis Woodland. A carpenter from Wodonga, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Woodland embarked with the 13th Reinforcements, 5th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Demosthenes on 29 December 1915. Following his arrival in France he contracted mumps. After recovering he then developed bronchitis and was later wounded in the left thigh. Following his recovery he then developed boils on his neck. After receiving treatment he returned to his battalion and was wounded in both legs and the buttocks. On 15 October 1918 he succumbed to his wounds and was buried in the St Sever Cemetery Extension, Haute Normandie, 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. The notebooks contain brief details, usually a surname or unit name, for each negative.