Studio portrait of 6723 Private Eric Taylor Cook, 2nd Battalion of Mosman, NSW. A bank clerk ...

Accession Number P05413.018
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Photomechanical print
Maker Unknown
Date made c 1916
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Studio portrait of 6723 Private Eric Taylor Cook, 2nd Battalion of Mosman, NSW. A bank clerk prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard SS Port Nicholson on 8 November 1916. He was killed in action near Jeancourt, France on 18 September 1918 aged 34. He is buried in the Templeux-le-Guerard British Cemetery, France. His cousin 11143 Gunner Alfred Rowland Westbrook, 2nd Field Artillery Brigade, was killed in action on 27 August