Studio portrait of 4152 Private (later Corporal) John Cogle, 20th (later 4th Field Company of ...

Accession Number P05301.247
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Photomechanical print
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney
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 4152 Private (later Corporal) John Cogle, 20th (later 4th Field Company of Engineers) Battalion, of Redfern, NSW. Son of John and Grace Cogle; husband of Elsie E. Cogle, of, Leichhardt, NSW. A shipwright prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Berrima (A35) on 26 June 1915. He was killed in action on 31 August 1916 at Pozieres, France, aged 30. He is buried in the Pozieres British Cemetery Ovillers-La-Boisselle, west of Pozi