Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 8428 Sapper (Spr) Charles Edward Rudolph. A public servant from Beechworth, Victoria prior to enlistment, Spr Rudolph embarked with the 2nd Divisional Signals Company from Melbourne on HMAT Euripides on 9 May 1916. Following his arrival in England he became ill and was admitted to hospital. Later joining the 1st Divisional Signal Company in France he contracted measles and as a result he also contracted pneumonia. On 22 February 1917, aged 22, he succumbed to his illness and was buried in the Heilly Station Cemetery, Picardie France. 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.