Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 4210 Private (Pte) Richard William Hammond. A labourer from North Melbourne, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Hammond embarked with the 13th Reinforcements, 5th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Demosthenes on 29 December 1915. Later suffering from trench fever he was invalided to England. Later re-joining his battalion he was accidently injured and invalided to England suffering from burns to the face and hands. After re-joining his battalion he returned to Australia on 5 April 1919. 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.