Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Group portrait including 2919 Private (Pte) Richard Arthur Harman (position unknown). A driver from Port Melbourne, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Harman had previously enlisted on 6 July 1915 but had been discharged as he had made a false declaration on enlistment. Later re-enlisting, Pte Harman embarked with the 6th Reinforcements, 29th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Euripides on 4 April 1916. He was later evacuated to England suffering from trench feet. Following his recovery he joined the 58th Battalion and then the 5th Battalion and returned to Australia on 31 March 1919. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had a concession 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.