Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 4955 Private (Pte) Benjamin Sago, 8th Battalion. A miner from Berringa, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Sago embarked with the 15th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Wiltshire on 7 March 1916. Later transferring to the 58th Battalion he was wounded in action. Due to the severity of his wounds, he returned to Australia on 2 March 1917 and was medically discharged. His brother 4217 Pte Horace Sago died of wounds on 26 November 1916. 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.