Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3618 Private (Pte) Stanley Stuart Sherren (seated) and an unidentified Corporal. A clerk from Rosedale, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Sherren embarked with the 8th Reinforcements, 24th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Afric on 5 January 1916. After transferring to the 8th Battalion he was admitted to hospital suffering from mumps. Following his recovery he re-joined his battalion and on 18 August 1916, aged 19, he was killed in action near Pozieres and buried nearby. Following the Armistice his remains could not be recovered and he is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial. 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.