Charles Keith Jago ROOKE

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ROOKE, Charles Keith Jago

Service Number:	64
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

World War 1 Service

20 Aug 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Corporal, 64, 12th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Brighton, Tasmania
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

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Biography 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

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