Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 4219 Private (Pte) William Hunt. A farmer from Mount Egerton, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Hunt embarked with the 13th Reinforcements, 14th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Demosthenes on 29 December 1915. On 12 August 1916, aged 26, he was killed in action and buried south of Courcelette 4 miles north-east of Albert, France. Following the Armistice his remains were recovered and re-interred in the Courcelette British 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.