Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3010 Private (Pte) Thomas Roy Bremner. A nurseryman from Port Melbourne, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Bremner embarked with the 7th Reinforcements, 23rd Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Commonwealth on 26 November 1915. Later wounded in action he was evacuated to England. Following his recovery he re-joined his battalion and received a severe shell wound to his right foot. Due to the severity of his wound he returned to Australia on 30 January 1919 and was medically discharged. 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.