Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait 3997 Private (Pte) Arthur Barrie. A labourer from Jesmond, NSW prior to enlistment, Pte Barrie trained as a signaller before embarking for overseas service with the 12th Reinforcements, 4th Battalion from Sydney on HMAT Medic on 30 December 1915. He later received a gunshot wound to the head and was evacuated to the 3rd Casualty Clearing Station where, on 18 April 1917, he succumbed to his wounds and was buried in the Grevillers British Cemetery, France. His brother 3125 Lance Corporal William Picken Barrie was killed in action on 1 September 1918. 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.