Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 6286 Private (Pte) Francis James Inglis, 6th Battalion, a 36 year old Salvation Army Officer from Ararat, Victoria when he enlisted in the AIF on 8 June 1916. He embarked for overseas with the 20th Reinforcements from Melbourne on 11 September 1916 aboard HMAT Euripides. While serving on the Western Front, Pte Inglis was killed in action on 5 June 1918 and is buried in the La Dreule Military Cemetery, Hazebrouck, France. 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 1930's, the Australian War Memorial purchased the original glass negatives from Algernon Darge, along with the photographers' notebooks.