Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Lieutenant Colonel (Lt Col) Roderick Tate Sutherland, Medical Officer in charge of the 1st Light Horse Field Ambulance rides pillion on a BSA motorcycle at Broadmeadows camp. The motorcycle rider is unidentified. A doctor from Melbourne and a Lieutenant Colonel with the Citizen Military Force, Lt Col Sutherland embarked from Sydney with A Squadron, aboard HMAT Southern (A27) on 23 September 1914. During his service Lt Col Sutherland became ill and returned to Australia on 13 December 1915. 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. The names are transcribed as they appear in the notebooks. Algernon Darge had an interest in motor vehilces and the negative for this image is inscribed "Darge Motograph", a term he used for his photographs of motor vehicles.