Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3134 Private George William Reynolds, 7th Battalion from Fitzroy, Victoria. A 24 year old wood-turner prior to enlisting on 10 July 1915, he embarked for overseas with the 10th Reinforcements from Melbourne on 29 September 1915 aboard RMS Osterley. Shortly after arriving in Egypt he transferred to the 59th Battalion and then to the 60th Battalion and deployed with them to the Western Front. He was killed in action near Doulieu, France on 19 July 1916 and is commemorated on the VC Corner Australian Cemetery Memorial, Fromelles, France with others who have no known grave. 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. The names are transcribed as they appear in the notebooks.