Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3921 Private (Pte) Henry Heaford Ramage. A coach builder from Ballarat East, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Ramage embarked with the 12th Reinforcements, 6th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Ceramic on 23 November 1915. Following his arrival in Alexandria he transferred to the 1st Pioneer Battalion. While serving in France he was admitted to hospital suffering from an old fracture to both tibias. Following his recovery he re-joined his unit and on 30 September 1917, aged 22, he was killed in action at Polygon Wood and was buried in the Belgian Battery Corner Cemetery, Ypres, Belgium. 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.