Studio portrait of 79 Private (Pte) John Edwin Crocker, 32nd Battalion from Marleston, South ...

Studio portrait of 79 Private (Pte) John Edwin Crocker, 32nd Battalion from Marleston, South Australia. A 20 year old tailor's cutter prior to enlisting on 14 July 1915, he embarked for overseas with A Company from Adelaide on 18 November 1915 aboard HMAT Geelong. He was killed in action at the battle of Fromelles on 20 July 1916. After the war his grave could not be located and he was commemorated on the VC Corner Australian Cemetery Memorial, Fromelles, France. In 2008 a burial ground containing the bodies of 250 British and Australian soldiers was located at Pheasant Wood, France. The soldiers died during the Battle of Fromelles on the night of 19-20 July 1916 and were buried by German troops. In 2010 all of the remains were reburied in the newly created Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery. At the time of the official dedication of the cemetery on 19 July 2010, ninety-six Australians had been identified through a combination of anthropological, archaeological, historical and DNA information. Since then other Australians, including Pte Crocker, have been identified.