CROOK, Cecil Werribee
| Service Number: | 2178 |
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| Enlisted: | 22 August 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Driver |
| Last Unit: | 1st Field Artillery Brigade |
| Born: | St Arnaud, Victoria, Australia, 19 September 1890 |
| Home Town: | Bacchus Marsh, Moorabool, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia, 27 July 1967, aged 76 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 22 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Bombardier, 2178, 3rd Field Artillery Brigade | |
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| 17 Sep 1914: | Involvement Bombardier, 2178, 3rd Field Artillery Brigade , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Geelong embarkation_ship_number: A2 public_note: '' | |
| 17 Sep 1914: | Embarked Bombardier, 2178, 3rd Field Artillery Brigade , HMAT Geelong, Melbourne | |
| 31 Jan 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Driver, 2178, 1st Field Artillery Brigade |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Bombardier Cecil Werribee Crook (Service No:2178) enlisted in the AIF on 22 August 1914 and was attached to 3rd Field Artillery Brigade when he embarked from Melbourne for Gallipoli on 17 September 1914 on board HMAT Geelong A2. In March 1916 he was a Driver serving with 21st Field Artillery Brigade in France, and was WiA in Belgium on 31 July 1917 (remained on duty). Driver Crook embarked from Italy on 8 October 1918 for the return to Australia on board HT Port Sydney, and was Discharged on 31 January 1919.
Born in 1890 at St Arnaud, Victoria Cecil (Webbe) was the third of nine children of Francis (Frank) Harbottle Crook (b1855 in Hobart, Tasmania) and first wife Hannah Elizabeth McCausand (b1859 at Kilfren Station in Benalla, Victoria). Frank (a Stock and Station Agent) and Hannah married in 1882 at Bacchus Marsh, Victoria where they settled and raised their family. Frank was an Auctioneer, Farmer, Clerk of Petty Sessions and Secretary of the Mechanics Institute and Free Library and the Bacchus Marsh Racing Club.
Webbe was a Farmer in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria when he enlisted in WWI, returning there after his service. In 1920 at St Columbus in Hawthron, Melbourne Victoria, Webbe married Kathleen May Burke (b1894 in Melbourne, Victoria). Webbe and Kathleen settled at Bacchus Marsh where Webbe was a Farmer until the late 1920s when he relocated to Bendigo and worked as a Cartage Contractor. The family was living in Melbourne by 1942 and Webbe was a Munitions Worker. He then worked as a Labourer before retiring as a 'Gentleman'. Webbe died at Rosebud on the Mornington Peninsula in 1967. Kathleen died in 1985.
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