Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives Accession Number: DA13876

Description

Studio portrait of 2441 Private (Pte) Frederick James Argall. A farmer from Kiata, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Argall embarked along with his brother 2440 Pte Arthur William Argall with the 4th Reinforcements, 29th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Anchises on 14 March 1916. He later transferred to the 46th Battalion and on 18 November 1916, aged 25, he was killed in action near Fleures, France. Having no known grave he is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial. Pte Arthur Argall also served with the 46th Battalion and returned to Australia on 13 April 1919. 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. See also DA13762 and DA13766.

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Conflicts

• First World War, 1914-1918