Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of F Anderson, probably 1878 Private (Pte) Frank Anderson, 22nd Battalion. A tanner from Clifton Hill, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Anderson embarked with the 3rd Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Anchises on 5 August 1915. Later promoted to Lance Corporal he was killed in action at Pozieres, France, aged 26, and having no known grave, is commemorated on The Villers-Bretonneux Memorial. 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.