| Accession Number | DA15452 |
|---|---|
| Collection type | Photograph |
| Object type | Black & white - Glass original half plate negative |
| Maker |
Darge Photographic Company |
| Place made | Australia: Victoria, Melbourne, Broadmeadows |
| Date made | c 28 May 1916 |
| Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
|
Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives
Description
Studio portrait of 3192 Private (Pte) Eric Norman Louie Barge of Malvern, Victoria. A farm labourer from Geelong prior to enlistment on 25 February 1916, Pte Barge joined the 29th Battalion and embarked from Melbourne on HMAT Berrima on 4 June 1916 disembarking in England. He proceeded to France on 13 November 1916 but was repatriated to England on 31 January 1917 due to illness. When Pte Barge returned to France in May 1917 he was transferred to the 46th Battalion and was killed in Belgium on 8 June 1917, aged 21 years.
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.