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Photograph donated to the Beaton Institute Archives by A.K. Scott.
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Item is a photograph of the headstone of Pte. John Bernard Croak, awarded the Victoria Cross in the First World War. Croak served with the 13th Battalion of the Canadian Infantry and was killed on August 8, 1918 at the age of 24.