Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 2472 Private (Pte) William Greenham. A labourer from South Melbourne, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Greenham enlisted on 7 July 1915 but for reasons not stated his embarkation was delayed. He embarked for overseas service with the 4th Reinforcements, 29th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Anchises on 14 March 1916. Later transferring to the 46th Battalion he was wounded in the right hand and admitted to hospital. After recovering he re-joined his battalion and was wounded in the right arm and was invalided to England. After re-joining his battalion he was killed in action on 9 July 1918 and was buried in the Vaux Military Cemetery Extension. His remains were subsequently exhumed and re-interred in the Villers-Bretonneux Military 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. See also DA12858.