Percival William Sternbeck was born in St Albans, NSW on 13 December 1921.
He married Doreen May Moore in Kurri Kurri, NSW.
He worked as a council employee.
Percy Sternbeck was a keen photographer, and his photos, held by the Coalfields Heritage Group, are a wonderful record of coalfields places and people of the 1980s.
Self portrait: Percy Sternbeck