Studio portrait of an unidentified sergeant (left) and 2283 Private (Pte) Allan Hooker, 17th ...

Accession Number P05367.005
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film copy negative
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: New South Wales
Date made c 1915
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 an unidentified sergeant (left) and 2283 Private (Pte) Allan Hooker, 17th Battalion, (right). Hooker of Uralla, NSW, enlisted at Liverpool, NSW on 20 July 1915 and embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Argyllshire on 30 September 1915. He was promoted to driver on 24 April 1916 and died of pneumonia on 29 November 1918 at the Casualty clearing Station in France aged 22 years.

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