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Born: 30 March 1884
Died: 18 September 1918
Citation accompanying photograph from the Australian War Memorial.
Studio portrait of 6723 Private Eric Taylor Cook, 2nd Battalion of Mosman, NSW. A bank clerk prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard SS Port Nicholson on 8 November 1916. He was killed in action near Jeancourt, France on 18 September 1918 aged 34. He is buried in the Templeux-le-Guerard British Cemetery, France. His cousin 11143 Gunner Alfred Rowland Westbrook, 2nd Field Artillery Brigade, was killed in action on 27 August.
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- 6723 Private Eric Taylor Cook, 2nd Battalion (photograph)
- Cook, E.T. : NAA details (website)
- Eric Taylor Cook : NAA Enlistment records (website)
- AWM Roll of Honour - Eric Taylor Cook (website)
- AWM Embarkation records for Eric Taylor Cook (website)
- AWM Red Cross Wounded and Missing - Eric Taylor Cook (website)
- Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing Bureau Files (website)
- Cook Eric Taylor : SERN 6723 : POB Bega NSW : POE Sydney NSW : NOK M Cook Alethea Isabel (webpage)
- Find War Dead: COOK, ERIC TAYLOR (webpage)
- People Australia: Cook, Eric Taylor (1884-1918) (webpage)
- ROLL OF HONOUR. (newspaper article)
- OFFICIAL CASUALTY LIST. NEW SOUTH WALES. KILLED. (newspaper article)
- Studio portrait of 6723 Private Eric Taylor Cook, 2nd Battalion of Mosman, NSW. (webpage)
- First World War Embarkation Rolls: Eric Taylor Cook (webpage)
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- COOK E. T. on the West Face of the Mosman War Memorial
- Cook, E. on the St Luke's Anglican Church Mosman memorial panels
- Cook, E. on the Mosman-Neutral Bay Rifle Club Roll of Honour