Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 6500 Private (Pte) Clemence Henry Gamble, 5th Battalion. A farmer from Winton North, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Gamble embarked with the 21st Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Nestor on 2 October 1916. Whilst serving in Belgium he was killed in action on 2 October 1917 at Passchendaele, aged 22, and was buried in the vicinity. Following the Armistice his remains were exhumed and laid to rest in the Aeroplane British Cemetery, Belgium. His brother 6055 Pte Robert James Gamble was killed in action, also at Passchendaele, on 8 October 1917. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had the concession 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 al.so DA16314 & DA16315.