Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3301 Private (Pte) Edward John Sadler, 29th Battalion. A dairyman from Glenormiston North, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Sadler embarked with the 7th Reinforcements from Melbourne on MAT Berrima on 4 July 1916. Whilst serving in France, He was killed in action on 27 January 1917 and buried near where he fell. His remains were subsequently recovered and re-interred in the Guard's Cemetery, Lesboeufs, 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 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.