Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of Acting Corporal (A/Cpl) Henry Frank Solomon. Originally from Cape Town, South Africa, A/Cpl Solomon was a telegraph messenger from Longford, Tasmania prior to enlistment and embarked with the rank of Private with the 26th Reinforcements, 12 Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Themistocles on 4 August 1917. Later transferring to the 3rd Field Artillery Brigade with the rank of Gunner, he was wounded in action. He returned to Australia on 9 July 1919. 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. See also DA17907.