Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3827 Private (Pte) Raymond Keogh. A groom from East St Kilda, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Keogh embarked with the 12th Reinforcements, 8th Battalion from Adelaide on HMAT Ceramic on 23 November 1915. Later promoted to Lance Corporal he was Mentioned in Despatches for partaking in a very successful raid on enemy trenches. Later suffering from an undisclosed illness he was invalided to England. Following his recovery he re-joined his battalion and was promoted to Corporal and then to Temporary Sergeant. On 3 November 1917 he was killed in action and, having no known grave, is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, 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. See also H06359.