Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 5705 Private (Pte) Henry Charles Morris, 14th Battalion. A native of London, England, Pte Morris was a civil servant from Coburg, Vic prior to enlistment and embarked with the 18th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Port Lincoln on 4 May 1916. Whilst serving in France he died of wounds received in action, aged 24, and was buried in the Dernancourt 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.