Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3770 Private (Pte) Thomas Matthew Bartlett. A grocer from Malvern, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Bartlett embarked with the 9th Reinforcements, 23rd Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Warilda on 8 February 1916. Later wounded in the head, he was evacuated to England. Following his recovery he re-joined his battalion and on 3 May 1917, aged 23, he was killed in action at Bullecourt. Having no known grave he is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had a permit 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.