Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 1260 Private Ernest Henry Netherby, 4th Light Horse Regiment from Mount Cole, via Ararat, Victoria. A 24 year old labourer prior to enlisting in the AIF on 19 July 1915, he embarked for overseas with the 9th Reinforcements from Melbourne on 27 September 1915 aboard HMAT Hororata. While serving in the Middle East, he was killed in action on 2 May 1918 in Palestine and is commemorated on the Jerusalem Memorial in the Jerusalem War Cemetery, Israel. 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.