Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3669 Private (Pte) Darcey Henry Howard. A seaman from Launceston, Tasmania prior to enlistment, Pte Howard embarked with the 8th Reinforcements, 26th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Afric on 5 January 1916. Later wounded in the head he was evacuated to England. Following his recovery he re-joined his battalion. On 29 October 1917 he was killed in action, aged 22, and was buried in the Ypres Reservoir Cemetery, Belgium. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had a permit 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.