Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3033 Private (Pte) Thomas Brocklebank. Originally from Lancashire, England, Pte Brocklebank was a farm labourer from Swan Hill, Victoria prior to enlistment and embarked with the 7th Reinforcements, 24th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Commonwealth on 26 November 1915. Later transferring to the 8th Battalion he was posted as missing in action. A subsequent court of enquiry determined that he had been killed in action, aged 19. Having no known grave he is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial. 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.