Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of Sergeant (Sgt) G E Young, probably 6606 Sgt George Ernest Young, a wool classer from Camberwell, Victoria, prior to enlistment. George Young was an Acting Corporal then Acting Sergeant before he embarked from Melbourne as a Private with the 21st Reinforcements, 7th Battalion, aboard HMAT Nestor (A71) on 2 October 1916. Young died of disease (pneumonia) at Cambridge, England, on 29 October 1918. 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. The names are transcribed as they appear in the notebooks.