Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 7886 Driver (Dvr) George Hutton Brinsley and an unidentified woman. A grocer’s assistant from Rose Park East, SA prior to enlistment, Dvr Brinsley embarked with the 14th Company, Australian Army Service Corps (AASC) from Melbourne on RMS Orontes on 24 November 1915. He was later allotted the service number 8798 and served with the 20th Company, AASC before transferring to the 2nd Divisional Train where he was allotted the service number 8798A. Subsequently promoted to Temporary Corporal he was invalided to hospital suffering from influenza and returned to Australia on 9 March 1919. 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 DA12649.