CROOK, Aubrey Charles Cecil Tasman
| Service Number: | 5810 |
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| Enlisted: | 31 August 1916, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 23rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Launceston, Tasmania, June 1888 |
| Home Town: | Launceston, Launceston, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Station manager (Tongonah) |
| Died: | Natural Causes, Ringwood, Victoria, 6 February 1958 |
| Cemetery: |
Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne Springvale, 'Boronia', Wall H, Niche 130 |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 31 Aug 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Melbourne, Victoria | |
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| 2 Oct 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 5810, 23rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Nestor embarkation_ship_number: A71 public_note: '' | |
| 2 Oct 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 5810, 23rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Nestor, Melbourne |
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Crookie, prior to enlisting in the 23rd Infantry Battalion of the First AIF in July 1916, had been a station (i.e. farm) manager for a property called ‘Tongonah’ near Launceston, Tasmania, and also a member of the Volunteer Reserve on Ocean Island, Nauru, for 18 months. Following active service in France and Belgium, Crookie returned to Launceston from the war in 1919 as a temporary sergeant. Sometime after the First World War he went back to Nauru and became the chief accountant for the British Phosphate Commissioners (BPC) on Nauru, and later in the head office in Melbourne. On 23 January 1937, aged 31, Crookie married Mary (May) Keenan McNeil, at 31 George Street, Fitzroy. It seems likely that May and Crookie met on Nauru after WWI, as May's parents, John Duncan McNeil and Mary Murray, lived at Nauru circa 1919-1939 (John was senior carpenter for the BPC). Crookie's parents were Charles Crook and Anne Tuck. May and Crookie lived from the 1940s at a house in Mullum Road, Ringwood. Crookie passed away in February 1958, aged 69, and May died in Heidelberg in May 1969, aged 62. They did not have any children.