Photograph relating to Leslie J. Cook

Accession Number P06306.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon: Lebanon, Beirut Tripoli Area, Beirut
Date made June 1941 - January 1942
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Informal portrait of NX32179 Corporal (Cpl) Leslie John Cook, 2/33 Battalion. A clerk from Concord West, NSW, he enlisted on 14 June 1940. Cpl Cook died of injuries in New Guinea on 7 September 1943, he was 25 years of age.