CROOK, Hector Angus
| Service Number: | VX47288 |
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| Enlisted: | 22 July 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Dandenong, Victoria Australia, 1 November 1906 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Driver |
| Died: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 14 May 1979, aged 72 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 22 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, VX47288 | |
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| 4 Oct 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, VX47288 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Lance Corporal Hector Angus Crook (Service No:VX47288) enlisted in the Australian Army on 22 July 1940. He was attached to 9th Reinfrcements 2/2 Field Ambulance when he was Discharged on 4 October 1945.
Born in 1906 in Dandenong in Melbourne Victoria, Hector was the youngest of five children of Frederick Athorn Crook (b1869 in Berwick, Victoria) and Julia Frances Charman (b1876 at Narre Warren, Victoria). Frederick (a Bicycle Manufacturer) and Julia married in 1899 in Dandenong, Melbourne Victoria where they settled and raised their family. Following Fredrick's death in 1907, Julia remarried in 1912.
Hector was a year old when his father died, and started work as a Driver in Melbourne, Victoria. In 1933 in Melbourne he married Gertrude Ida Crean (b1913 in Hallam, Melbourne, Victoria). Hector and Gertrude settled in Melbourne, where Hector worked as a Driver - employment he resumed following his service in WWII. Gertrude was a Textile Worker. Hector died in 1979 and Gertrude in 1996.