Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 4839 Private (Pte) Edward Edwin Jennings, 14th Battalion. Originally from Stratford, England, Pte Jennings was a labourer of no fixed address prior to enlistment and embarked with the 15th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Anchises on 14 March 1916. Whilst serving in France, he was wounded in action and, on 31 August 1916, aged 23, he succumbed to his wounds and was buried in the Puchevillers British Cemetery, France. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had the 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