Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3470 Private (Pte) Harold Thomas Burn, 22nd Battalion. A clerk from Geelong, Victoria prior to enlistment he embarked from Melbourne on 5 January 1916 aboard HMAT Afric for Egypt where he was transferred to the 57th Battalion and then to the 58th Battalion. He was promoted to Corporal in May 1916 prior to his battalion relocating to the Western Front, France. In early August 1916 he was promoted to Sergeant and then was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant (2nd Lt) on 30 August 1916. 2nd Lt Burn was wounded in action near Bapaume, France and was evacuated to No 8 General Hospital, Rouen, where he died of these wounds on 23 December 1916. He was aged 27 years.