Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3036 Private (Pte) Charles Oldham Bulmer. A labourer from Brighton, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Bulmer embarked with the 7th Reinforcements, 21st Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Wiltshire on 18 November 1915. Following his arrival in the Middle East he transferred to the 60th Battalion and then the 59th Battalion where he was appointed Driver and allotted the service number 3036A. Later serving in France he was admitted to hospital suffering from influenza. Following his recovery he re-joined his battalion and was wounded in action while transporting ammunition to the firing line and evacuated to the 15th Australian Field Ambulance. On 1 September 1918 aged 30, he succumbed to his wounds and was buried in the Herbecourt British Cemetery, Picardie, 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..