Portrait of 4562 Private (Pte) Cecil James Crook, 19 Battalion, in a peaked cap and uniform. Pte ...

Accession Number P03921.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Date made c 1915-1918
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Portrait of 4562 Private (Pte) Cecil James Crook, 19 Battalion, in a peaked cap and uniform. Pte C J Crook, a miner from Adamstown, New South Wales, enlisted on 10 November 1915. He died of wounds on 4 October 1918 and is buried in Tincourt New British Cemetery, France. Two of Pte Cook's brothers, 45 Pte Daniel Crook and 58681 Pte Albert Thomas Crook, also served and returned to Australia in 1919.