Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3605 Private Cecil Giles Teasdale, 3rd Pioneer Battalion from Kerang, Victoria. A 22 year old driver prior to enlisting on 6 July 1917, he embarked for overseas with the 8th Reinforcements from Melbourne on 21 November 1917 aboard HMAT Nestor. Following further training in Egypt and England, he joined the 60th Battalion in France on 17 April 1918. He was killed in action at Morlancourt, France on 4 July 1918 and buried in the Mericourt-L'Abbe Communal Cemetery Extension, 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. The names are transcribed as they appear in the notebooks.