Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait Geo Burton probably either: 4763 Private (Pte) George Edward Burton, 15th Reinforcements, 5th Battalion, of Tangil via Moe, Vic; or 4874 Gunner (Gnr) George Robert Burton, 8th Battery, 3rd Field Artillery Brigade, of Melbourne Vic (originally of Padiham, England). 4763 Pte Burton enlisted on 27 July 1915 and embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Wiltshire on 7 March 1916. He returned to Australia on 4 June 1919 with an Anzac Cyclist Battalion. 4874 Gnr Burton enlisted on 29 April 1915 and embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Persia on 10 August 1915. He was accidentally injured on 17 June 1917 and returned to Australia on 12 April 1919. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had a 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. The names are transcribed as they appear in the notebooks.