Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives Accession Number: DA13422

Description

Studio portrait of 3816 Private (Pte) Allan Edward Folks. An engine driver from Bonnie Doon, Victoria prior to enlistment had previously been rejected due to bad teeth and embarked with the 9th Reinforcements, 24th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Warilda on 8 February 1916. Later wounded in the left thigh he was evacuated to hospital. On 14 August 1916 he succumbed to his wounds, aged 20, and was buried in the Etaples Military Cemetery. See also H05498 and DA13421. His brother, 531 Pte Norman Wakefield Folks was killed in action at Gallipoli on 8 August 1915. 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