Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives Accession Number: DA13192

Description

Studio portrait of 3595 Private (Pte) Norman John Noble. An electrician’s labourer from North Fitzroy, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Noble embarked with the 8th Reinforcements, 23rd Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Afric on 5 January 1916. Later transferring to the 60th Battalion he was reported as missing in action. A subsequent court of enquiry determined that he had been killed in action on 19 July 1916, aged 32, during the Battle of Fromelles. . Having no known grave he is commemorated on the VC Corner Australian Cemetery and Memorial, Fromelles, France. 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.

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Conflicts

• First World War, 1914-1918