Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 2433 Private (Pte) Thomas Charles Burt 38th Battalion. A farmer from Glenhope East prior to enlistment, Pte Burt embarked with the 4th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Port Lincoln on 20 October 1916. He was later wounded in action and, on rejoining his unit, was declared as missing in action. It was subsequently established that he had been killed in action at Passchendaele, aged 29, and having no known grave, is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium. See also DA15816, DA15831 and DA15833. . 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.