Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Outdoor group portrait of six members of the Army Medical Corps sitting outside their tent. Included in the group but position not known is 14018 Lance Corporal (L Cpl) Henry James Thorsen, 3rd Australian Casualty Clearing Station from Daylesford, Victoria. A 21 year old draper prior to enlisting on 14 August 1915, he embarked for overseas from Sydney on 5 June 1916 aboard HMA Borda. After further training in England, he deployed to France on 27 September 1916. L Cpl Thorsen was wounded in action at Brandhoek, Belgium on 21 August 1917 and died of his wounds the next day. He is buried in the Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium. 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. The names are transcribed as they appear in the notebooks.