Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 1536 Private (Pte) Edward John Francis, 1st Reinforcements, 21st Battalion, of Upper Hawthorn, Vic. Pte Francis enlisted on 12 April 1915 and embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Berrima on 28 June 1915. He was killed in action at Pozieres, France on 30 July 1916. His brother 1537 Pte Frank Lindsay Francis who also served with the 21st Battalion, was killed at Pozieres on the same day. 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.