Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 9122 Private (Pte) Charles Bradley, Australian Army Medical Corps. Originally from Newark, England, Pte Bradley, a clerk, enlisted in the Australian Army Medical Corps in Sydney on 19 April 1915 and embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Karoola on 18 December 1915 for Suez and then to England where he was attached to the Great Peter Street (London) Convalescent Hospital. He sailed to France in April 1917 and transferred to the 8th Field Ambulance on 4 May 1917. Pte Bradley was killed in action near Ypres, Belgium, on 20 September 1917. He was aged 30 years. 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.