Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 2647 Private (Pte) Richmond Boyd Graham, 29th Battalion from Sandringham, Victoria. A 21 year old clerk prior to enlisting on 27 January 1916, he embarked for overseas with the 5th Reinforcements from Melbourne on 14 March 1916 aboard HMAT Anchises. After further training in Egypt and England, he joined the 29th Battalion on the Western Front on 28 September 1916. While detached to the 25th Machine Gun Company, he was killed in action at Polygon Wood, Belgium on 26 September 1917. Pte Graham is buried in the Hooge Crater Cemetery, four kilometres east of Ypres, Belgium. 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. The names are transcribed as they appear in the notebooks.