CROOKE, Raymond Herbert Dunply
| Service Number: | V368073 |
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| Enlisted: | 23 February 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 7 September 1912 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Toolmaker |
| Died: | Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, 24 September 2000, aged 88 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 23 Feb 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V368073 | |
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| 10 Jun 1943: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V368073 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Raymond Herbert Dunply Crooke (Private; Service No:V368073) enlisted in the ACMF on 23 February 1942. He was attached to 5 Battalion VDC when he Discharged on 10 June 1943.
Ray was born in Melbourne, Victoria in 1912, the third of five children of Robert James Crook (b1872 in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria) and first wife Alice Louisa Georgette Legat (b1888 in Paris, France). Robert (a Teacher and Commercial Foreign Correspondent) married in Paris, France in 1907. Robert travelled to Paris in 1901 and lived and worked there and in Spain before returning to Melbourne, Victoria with his wife and two children in 1912. Robert and Alice settled at Cockatoo in the Dandenong, Victoria where Robert was a Farmer. Alice did not adapt to country life or motherhood and in 1926 moved to Melbourne, leaving five children with Robert. Robert also moved to Melbourne with the children and was a Teacher. The couple divorced in 1932 (Robert was working in Melbourne as a Salesman) and Robert remarried in 1938. He and his second wife settled in Bendigo, Victoria.
Ray worked as a Toolmaker in Melbourne, Victoria and in 1934 he married Dorothy Rebe Ada Reynolds (b1911 in Essex, England) - Dorothy emigrated in 1920 with her parents and siblings, arriving in Melbourne, Victoria on board the Benalla. Ray and Dorothy settled in Melbourne, Victoria where Ray worked as a Toolmaker and Travelling Salesman (Engineer) before retiring to Ararat in Wimmera, Victoria in 1977. Both Ray and Dorothy died in Canberra ACT - Ray in 2000 and Dorothy in 2004.