CROOK, Stanley Frederick
| Service Number: | 35297 |
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| Enlisted: | 15 May 1944 |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Oakleigh, Victoria, Australia, 10 August 1923 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia, 28 January 2016, aged 92 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Woolgoolga Monumental & Lawn Cemetery, NSW |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 15 May 1944: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sergeant, 35297 | |
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| 17 Jun 1948: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sergeant, 35297 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Captain Stanley Frederick Crook (Service Nos:35297/VX128481) enlisted in the Australian Army on 15 May 1944 and served in WWII as a Sergeant attached to 8 Australian Stores Coy when he Discharged on 15 June 1948. He then served in the Army - based in Melbourne and the ACT until retirement.
Born in 1923 in Melbourne Victoria, Stan was the eldest of two children of John Frederick Athorn Crook (b1886 at Riddell's Creek in Victoria) and Lillian Gladys Beryl Weston (b1899 in Melbourne, Victoria). John (a Dairy Farmer) and Lillian married in 1923 in Melbourne. John had served in WWI (Driver; Service No:21841). He and Lillian settled in Melbourne where they raised their family and John worked as a Cooper.
In 1946 in Melbourne Victoria, Stan married Norma Joyce Simpkins (b1924 in Melbourne, Victoria). Stan and Joyce lived in Melbourne and Canberra ACT where Stan served in the Australian Army. Following his retirement, Stan and Joyce settled in Coff's Harbour NSW where Norma died in 2006 and Stan in 2016.
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