Accession Number | DA08166 |
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Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | Black & white - Glass original half plate negative |
Maker |
Darge Photographic Company |
Place made | Australia: Victoria, Melbourne, Broadmeadows |
Date made | 21 April 1915 |
Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives
Studio portrait probably of 985 Private (Pte) Harold Charles Jennings, 24th Battalion from Oakleigh, Victoria. He was an 18 year old clerk when he enlisted in the AIF on 31 March 1915 and embarked for overseas with D Company from Melbourne on 10 May 1915 aboard HMAT Euripides. After serving at Gallipoli, he went on to serve on the Western Front where he died of wounds on 24 June 1916. Pte Jennings is buried in the British Cemetery, Chapelle d'Armentieres, 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 1930's, 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.