Studio group portrait of 7776 Private (Pte) Wilfred Murray Cook, 13th Battalion, of Cootamundra ...

Studio group portrait of 7776 Private (Pte) Wilfred Murray Cook, 13th Battalion, of Cootamundra (left), and brothers 7050 Pte John Cecil Crowe, 19th Battalion, of Cootamundra (seated) and 7051 Pte James Henry Crowe, 19th Battalion, of Cootamundra, NSW (right). A pastry cook before enlisting in January 1918, Pte James Crowe had previously served in the 44th (Werriwa) Infantry, Citizens' Military Forces (CMF), and left Australia for England with the 21st Reinforcements in February 1918. He transferred to the 45th Battalion before arriving in France for service on the Western Front in June 1918, and after a few days transferred again to the 34th Battalion. He was killed by German artillery fire along the Bray-Corbie Road on 22 August 1918, aged 20. Pte Wilfred Cook and Pte John Crowe survived the war and returned to Australia in 1919. Pte James Crowe's grave at Beacon Cemetery at Sailly-Laurette, France can be viewed at P07463.002.

• A re-used wooden cross marks the grave of 7051 Private (Pte) James Henry Crowe, 34th Battalion, ...