Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Portrait of Mal Graham copied for the Cobram Honour Roll. The soldier is probably 12307 Private (Pte) Melville Adrian Graham, a famer from Yarroweyah South, Victoria, prior to enlistment. Pte Graham embarked from Melbourne with the 10th Field Artillery, aboard HMAT Runic (A54) on 20 Juen 1916. He died of pleurisy and complications on 9 March 1917 at the 1st Austalian Auxiliary Hospital, Harefield, England. During the First World War the Cobram and District Soldiers Fund initiated a project to create a Cobram Honour Roll. It was to include portraits of servicemen who had links to the Cobram area. The Fund arranged for portraits to be copied by the Darge Photographic Company at its Collins Street Studio, Melbourne. Around 100 copy prints were supplied by the Darge company but it is not known if the roll was ever constructed. In the 1930s, the Australian War Memorial purchased 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.