Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of W Barry, possibly 2514 Private (Pte) William Charles Barry 29th Battalion. A gasfitter from Croxton, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Barry embarked with the 4th Reinforcements from Melbourne on 14 March 1916. Whilst serving in France he was reported as missing in action but it was later established that he had been wounded in action at Fleurbaix on 20 July 1916, taken prisoner, and interned at Reserve Lazarett, Grafenwohl, Germany. Following the amputation of his right leg, he was repatriated back to England on 18 January 1918 and returned to Australia on 10 March 1918. 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. See also DA15336 & DA15337.