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ROOKE, Charles Keith Jago
Personal Details
Service Number: | 64 |
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Enlisted: | 20 August 1914, Enlisted at Brighton, Tasmania |
Last Rank: | Corporal |
Last Unit: | 12th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Dorchester, England, 1868 |
Home Town: | Mangalore, Southern Midlands, Tasmania |
Schooling: | Mr. Erasmus Wilkinson's School in Bristol and at Lancing College, England |
Occupation: | Solicitor |
Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 25 April 1915 |
Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" No known grave Panel 34, Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing |
Service History
World War 1 Service
20 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Corporal, 64, 12th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Brighton, Tasmania | |
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20 Oct 1914: | Involvement Corporal, 64, 12th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Hobart embarkation_ship: HMAT Geelong embarkation_ship_number: A2 public_note: '' | |
20 Oct 1914: | Embarked Corporal, 64, 12th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Geelong, Hobart |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Next of kin given as his brother Houston Patterson Wallace Rooke of Mangalore, Tasmania also known as Houston Patterson Wallace Trelawney
Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal