CROCKER, Cyril Edward
| Service Number: | W74970 |
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| Enlisted: | 31 January 1943 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, 2 February 1899 |
| Home Town: | Blue Spec, East Pilbara, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Prospector |
| Died: | Midland, Western Australia, 27 September 1971, aged 72 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 31 Jan 1943: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, W74970 | |
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| 29 Dec 1944: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, W74970 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Cyril Edward Crocker (Service No:W74970) served in the ACMF with 11th North West Battalion (WA) VDC from 31 January 1943 to 29 December 1944. He had served in WWI (Private; Service No:5468) with 28th Infantry Battalion.
Cyril was born in Kalgoorlie, WA in 1899, eldest of four children of Edward Henry Crocker (b1879 in Pekina, South Australia) and his first wife Jessie Core Irving (b1877 in Blanchetown, South Australia). Edward was a Miner in Kalgoorlie in 1898 when he and Jesie married in Boulder. In the early 1900s they moved to Bunbury, and then Harvey and Dowerin, where Edward was a Farm Hand. The couple separated in 1910 and divorced in 1916 - Jessie was living in Midland and Edward was a Farm Manager in Beverley. Both remarried - Jessie in Midland and Edward in South Australia (where he was an Overseer), and were engaged in custody disputes.
Cyril worked in Northam as a Farm Hand, at Gascoyne Gate via Carnarvon and Sylvania in the Murchison as a Station Hand, and as a Prospector (blue asbestos) at Blue Spec and Nullagine. Following his Discharge from the ACMF, Cyril worked at Blue Spec as a Prospector, then settled in Midland Junction in the early 1950s, where he worked as a Builder's Labourer and lived with his youngest sister Cora (a Teacher). Cyril died in 1971.