Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Group portrait including 1643 Private (Pte) Henry Patrick Wright (position unknown). A miner from Staffordshire Reef, Victoria, Pte Wright embarked with the 11th Reinforcements, 8th Light Horse Regiment from Melbourne on HMAT Clan Maccorquodale on 13 November 1915. Later serving in the Middle East he was re-mustered as a Trooper. Subsequently wounded in the abdomen on the Sinai Peninsula he was evacuated to hospital where, on 7 September 1916, aged 19, he succumbed to his wounds. Having no known grave he is commemorated on the Jerusalem War 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. See also DA12253.