Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3870 Private (Pte) Charles Andrew Minniece. A farm hand from Lake Boga, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Minniece embarked with the 9th Reinforcements, 24th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Warilda on 8 February 1916. Later suffering from contusions on the left hip he was invalided to England. After re-joining his battalion he was wounded in the right hip and admitted to the 36th Casualty Clearing Station. On 7 January 1917 he succumbed to his wounds and was buried in the Heilly Station Cemetery, Mericourt-L’Abbe, 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. See also DA13438.