Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 5042 Private (Pte) Henry Thomas Jenkins. A tram conductor from Eaglehawk, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Jenkins embarked with the 14th Reinforcements, 29th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Ulysses on 22 December1917. On 9 August 1918 he was killed in action and buried in the nearby vicinity. His remains were later exhumed and re-interred in the Heath Cemetery, Picardie, France. 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. See also DA18956.