Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 5076 Private (Pte) Reginald Wills Ramage, 24th Battalion. A farmer from Violet Town, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Ramage embarked with the 13th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Themistocles on 28 July 1916. Initially reported as wounded and missing in action at Bullecourt, a later court of enquiry established that he was killed in action on 2 May 1917. 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 the 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.