Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 4533 Private (Pte) Alfred Leslie King. A farmer from Daylesford, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte king embarked with the 14th Reinforcements, 8th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Themistocles on 28 January 1916. He later transferred to the 58th Battalion and was wounded in action and admitted to the 14th Australian Field Ambulance. On 1 December 1916 he succumbed to his wounds and was buried North-East of Delville Wood. His remains were subsequently re-interred in the Guards Cemetery, Lesboeufs, Picardie, France. Two brothers, Captain Herbert Joseph King and 2701 Pte John William King also served in the AIF. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had a 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.