Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Group portrait including 4884 Private (Pte) George Sherry, 8th Battalion (position unknown). A farmer from Foster, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Sherry embarked with the 15th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Wiltshire on 7 March 1916. Later transferring to the 58th Battalion he was wounded in action and evacuated to England. Following his recovery he rejoined his unit and was promoted to Lance Corporal. On 16 October 1917 he was killed in action in Belgium and, having no known grave, is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium. 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.