CROOKE, Horace Roy Wyndham
| Service Number: | 1019 |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | 15 September 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 5th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia , 11 January 1885 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Driver |
| Died: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 21 March 1930, aged 45 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Dandenong General Cemetery |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 15 Sep 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1019, 5th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 21 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 1019, 5th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Orvieto embarkation_ship_number: A3 public_note: '' | |
| 21 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 1019, 5th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Orvieto, Melbourne | |
| 25 Mar 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1019, 5th Infantry Battalion, ex Alexandria to Marseilles | |
| 10 May 1916: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 1019, 5th Infantry Battalion, France: GSW to head | |
| 18 Mar 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 1019, 5th Infantry Battalion, France: Gas Poisoning | |
| 7 Jul 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 1019, 5th Infantry Battalion | |
| 23 Aug 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 1019, 5th Infantry Battalion, France: BW back - severe | |
| 8 May 1919: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 1019, 5th Infantry Battalion, Ex England for Melbourne per Devanha |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Lance Corporal Horace Raymond Wyndham Crooke (Service No:1019) enlisted in the AIF in September 1914 and was a Private with 5th Infantry Battalion when he embarked in October from Melbourne, bound for Gallipoli on board HMAT Orvieto A3. Private Crooke then served in France with the 5th Infantry Battalion. He was hospitalised on several occasions - for Gastro Enteritis, an eye injury, GSW to his head, Gas Poisoning and septic dermatitis, and a BW to his back (severe). Lance Corporal Crooke embarked from England for Melbourne in May 1919 on board the Devanha and was Discharged on 7 July 1919.
Born in 1885 in Melbourne Victoria, Ray was the second of five children of Robert Alfred Crook (b1858 in Ballan, Victoria) and Celia Lily May Goldstone (b1861 in Melbourne, Victoria). Robert (a Labourer) and Celia married in 1883 in Melbourne Victoria where they settled and raised their family. Robert worked as a Boarding House Keeper and Foreman.
Ray worked as a Coal Miner in Outram briefly before becoming a Chauffeur in Melbourne. In 1909 he married Bessie Lorna Rutherford (b1891 in Geelong, Victoria) and was a Driver for Millars Jarrah Coy. The couple separated in 1913 and following his return from WWI, Ray filed for Divorce in 1919.
As a result of his war injuries (Gas Poisonning and septic dermatitis, eye injury, GSW to head and BW to back), Ray had lost hearing in one ear, continually suffered severe headaches, and was regularly treated at Caulfield Military Hospital. He was unable to hold permanent employment because of dizziness, loss of balance and frequent falls.
In 1920 in Dandenong, in Melbourne Victoria Ray married Louisa Ellen Ball (b1895 in Dandenong, Victoria). Ray and Louisa settled in Melbourne, where Ray worked intermittently as a Canvasser and Gospel Worker. He died following brain surgey in 1930 at Caulfield Military Hospital. Louisa later remarried and died in 1991.
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