Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of Walklate, H Y, possibly 5261 Private (Pte) Wilfrid Ernest Walklate, 14th Battalion from Caulfield, Victoria, the brother of Lieutenant Harold Vernon who may have ordered the photograph [see image P05554.006]. Pte Walklate is listed on the Embarkation Roll as Wilford Ernest Walklate. A 25 year old commercial traveller prior to enlisting on 29 September 1915, he embarked for overseas with the 16th Reinforcements from Melbourne on 14 March 1916 aboard HMAT Anchises (A68). Following a short stop-over in Egypt, he proceeded to France in June 1916 and was appointed Acting Sergeant. He was later promoted to Lance Corporal on 10 February 1918 and to Sergeant (Sgt) on 15 April 1918. Sgt Walklate arrived back in Australia on 21 May 1919.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.