Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3284 Private (Pte) Robert Tissear, 24th Battalion from Healesville, Victoria. An 18 year old grocer prior to enlisting on 9 July 1915, he embarked for overseas with the 7th Reinforcements from Melbourne on 26 November 1915 aboard HMAT Commonwealth. He transferred to the 8th Battalion in Egypt on 24 February 1916 and deployed with them to France on 31 March 1916. Pte Tissear was killed in action at Pozieres, France on 26 July 1916 and is commemorated on the Australian National Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux, France with others who have no known grave. 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.