Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 1643 Private (Pte) Henry Patrick Wright. A miner from Staffordshire Reef, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Wright embarked with the 11th Reinforcements, 8th Light Horse Regiment from Melbourne on HMAT Clan Maccorquodale on 13 November 1915. While serving in the Middle East he was wounded in the abdomen and admitted to the 3rd Light Horse Field Ambulance where, on 12 August 1916, he succumbed to his wounds aged 19. He is commemorated on the Jerusalem Memorial, Israel. 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.