Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3919 Private (Pte) George Murray. A labourer from Chiltern Valley, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Murray embarked with the 12th Reinforcements, 5th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Ceramic on 23 November 1915. Later wounded in the left hand he was evacuated to England. Following his recovery he re-joined his battalion and was posted as missing in action. A subsequent court of enquiry determined that he had been killed in action at Passchendaele on 4 October 1917, aged 23. Having no known grave he 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 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.