Jenett, Henry (Heinrich Jacobsen) (Civilian Internee, d.1950) Accession Number: 3DRL/4166

Description

Collection relating to First World War civilian internee Henry Jennett, Trial Bay Internment Camp, 1918.

Wallet 1 of 1 - contains a printed address book, map and list of camp organisations [in German language] for Holdsworthy Internment Camp (Eastern compound) and a map of Trial Bay Internment Camp. Collection also includes two untitled descriptive poems [partly in German and partly in English, author unknown].

Contextual Description

Prior to the First World War, Heinrich Jacobsen was the manager of a rubber plantation in Sumatra. He was in Australia on business at the outbreak of the war, and being a German national, was interned at the Trial Bay Internment Camp. During his internment, he taught classes at the camp. After the war, he moved to the United States of America and legally changed his name to Henry Jennett. He worked as a chemist in the plastics industry until his death in February 1950.

Details

Accession Number
3DRL/4166
Maker
Henry Jenett
Classification
Private Record
Object Type
Papers
Measurement
Archived measurement
Date Made
1918
Whole/Part
Collection
Item Count
1
Access
Open
Copying Provisions
Copyright expired. Copying permitted subject to physical condition. Permission for reproduction not required.
Provenance
AWM315 419/020/015
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

Conflicts

Places

Tags

More like this

Kramer, Karl (?), Civilian Internee

Private Record PR00135 First World War, 1914-1918

Sketch book maintained by Karl Kramer during his internment at Holdsworthy Concentration Camp, New South Wales. The book contains water colour and pencil sketches, including a self portrait of Karl Kr

Goener, Baldwin (German Civilian Internee)

Private Record 3DRL/3559 Second World War, 1939-1945

Collection relating to Baldwin Goener, who was interned during the Second World War. The typed 30 page typescript includes accounts of experiences of internment at Tatura, Victoria and Gaythorn, Queen

Graebuer F

Manuscript MSS0887 First World War, 1914-1918

Handwritten account "Die Sintflutrage in Australien" relates to the internment of Henry Jennett (formerly Hienrich Jacobsen) at Trial Bay NSW during 1914 - 1918 war (WW1).

Weiler, Hans (Civilian internee, b.1910 - d.2004)

Private Record PR03427 Second World War, 1939-1945

Collection relating to the Second World War experience of civilian internee Hans Weiler, alias Henry John Weiler, Australia, 1943-1944. Wallet 1 of 1 - contains one diary kept during 1943-1944 by Han

Andreae, Heinrich Romer (German Army)

Private Record PR89/179 First World War, 1914-1918

Handwritten letter from Heinrich Romer Andreae, a German Army officer, to the mother of Lieutenant Alan S Righetti, 2nd Light Horse Regiment, describing the circumstances of her son's death at Romani

See more similar items →

Last modified: 24 June 2025 - 4.55 am

Back to search