Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Portrait of Johnathan Stephen cropped from a family group portrait DA11412. The soldier is 2810 Private (Pte) Jonathan Stephens, a miner from Ballarat, Victoria, prior to enlistment. Pte Stephens embarked from Melbourne, with the 6th Reinforcements, 21st Battalion, aboard RMS Moldavia on 5 October 1915. He served on the Western Front and on 24 February 1916 he was transferred to the 7th Battalion. Pte Stephens was killed in action during the Battle of Pozieres, France, on 25 July 1916. 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. The names are transcribed as they appear in the notebooks. See also DA10934 and P04813.001.