Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 6874A Private George Leslie Reeves, 24th Battalion from Sebastopol, Victoria. A 21 year old dairy farmer prior to enlisting on 24 July 1917, he embarked for overseas with the 20th Reinforcements from Melbourne on 21 November 1917 aboard HMAT Nestor. He was killed in action on 12 June 1918 near Framerville, France and is buried in the Villers Bretonneux Military Cemetery, France. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had a concession 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. The names are transcribed as they appear in the notebooks.