Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 2562 Private (Pte) Arthur Bailey. A clerk from East Malvern, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Bailey embarked with the 6th Reinforcements 23rd Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Ulysses on 27 October 1915. He later served with the 58th Battalion where he was appointed Lance Corporal before transferring to the 5th Field Ambulance where he was awarded the Military Medal. On 24 July 1917 he was killed in action near Bullecourt and was buried in the Vaulx Hill Cemetery France. His brother 1081 Pte Frank Bailey died of wounds on 27 April 1915 and another brother, Lance Corporal Samuel Bailey also served with the 5th Field Ambulance. 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.