Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Portrait of Sergeant Tunbridge, Australian Flying Corps (second from the left) and unidentified servicemen. A motor cyclist from Ballarat, Victoria, Acting Sergeant John Vincent Tunbridge embarked with Headquarters, No. 1 Squadron from Melbourne aboard HMAT Orsova (A67) on 16 March 1916. While serving with 67 Squadron RFC, he was commissioned and reached the rank of Lieutenant. He was wounded in action in air combat over Egypt on 11 May 1917 and was awarded the Military Cross for consistent gallantry in numerous air combats, notably on 11 May 1917. His wounds were so severe that he was medically evacuated to Australia, arriving on 22 August 1917. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had a concession 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. The names are transcribed as they appear in the notebooks.