Studio portrait of 2472 Corporal (Cpl) Ellis Eric Cork, 31st Battalion, of Arncliffe, NSW. ...

Place Europe: Belgium, Flanders, West-Vlaanderen, Ypres, Zonnebeke, Polygon Wood
Accession Number H06061
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: Victoria, Melbourne
Date made c 1916
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 2472 Corporal (Cpl) Ellis Eric Cork, 31st Battalion, of Arncliffe, NSW. Formerly a clerk in the Civil Service, Cpl Cork enlisted on 31 December 1915, and, as a member of the 4th Reinforcements embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Anchises (A68) on 14 March 1916. He served on the Western Front where he was killed in action at Polygon Wood, Belgium, on 26 September 1917, aged 20 years.