Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3930 Private (Pte) Henry Hemmingway Turner. A farm labourer from Kerang, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Turner embarked with the 9th Reinforcements, 21st Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Warilda on 8 February 1916. He was subsequently reported as missing in action and a later court of enquiry determined that he had been killed in action on 26 August 1916, aged 21, and was buried near Thiepval. His remains were later recovered and re-interred in the Pozieres 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. See also DA13804.