Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 2564 Private (Pte) Arthur Robert Bragg. A publican from Melbourne, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Bragg embarked with the 6th Reinforcements, 24th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Ulysses on 27th October 1915. After transferring to the 60th Battalion, he was promoted to Corporal and was posted as missing in action. A subsequent court of enquiry determined that he had been killed in action on 19th July 1916, aged 40. Having no known grave he is commemorated on the VC Corner Australian Memorial, Fromelles. 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.