Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 2416 Private (Pte) Ernest Allen Jones. A bank clerk from Bannockburn, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Jones attended the AIF Signal School before embarking with the 4th Reinforcements, 29th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Anchises on 14 March1916. He later transferred to the 46th Battalion and on 12 July 1917, aged 19, he was killed in action and buried in the Pioneer Junction Cemetery. Following the Armistice his remains were recovered and re-interred in the Bancourt British Cemetery, Picardie, France. 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.