Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3273 Private (Pte) Arthur Frederic Turnbull. A clerk from Ararat, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Turnbull embarked with the 7th Reinforcements, 21st Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Wiltshire on 18 November 1915. Later serving with the 60th Battalion, the 58th Battalion and then the 57th Battalion he was wounded in the left arm and evacuated to England. Following his recovery he re-joined his battalion and received a gunshot wound to the head. He was evacuated to a casualty clearing station and then to the 15th General Hospital where, on 11 August 1918, he succumbed to his wounds and was buried in the Terlincthun British Cemetery, Wimille, France. 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. See also DA12179.