Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 14506 Sapper Stanley Roy Barratt, 1st Australian Wireless Signal Squadron from Beulah, Victoria. A 22 year old clerk prior to enlisting on 17 June 1916, he embarked for overseas with the 3rd Reinforcements from Melbourne on 25 July 1916 aboard RMS Malwa. After serving in the Middle East, mostly in present day Iraq, he returned to Australia on 19 April 1919. [See also image DA15856 for a group portrait including Sapper Barratt.] 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 1930's, 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.