Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 2928 Private (Pte) Ernest James Forsyth, 5th Battalion. A salesman from Fitzroy, Vic prior to enlistment, Pte Forsyth embarked with the 9th Reinforcements from Melbourne aboard HMAT Star of Victoria on 10 September 1915. Later transferring to the 57th Battalion, he was promoted to Lance Corporal and was killed in action on 23 July 1916 at Pozieres, France, aged 24. He was buried in the Rue-Du-Bois Military Cemetery, Fleurbaix, France. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had the 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.