Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3463 Private William Gladstone Barnes, 58th Battalion, of Coburg, Victoria. A draper prior to enlistment, he embarked on HMAT Afric on 5 January 1916 initially to join the 57th Battalion in Egypt. In March 1916 he was transferred to the 58th Battalion and then was sent to France in June 1916. He was wounded in the field on 31 August 1916 and died the following day in the 1st Australian Casualty Clearing Station.
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.