James Robert CROOK

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CROOK, James Robert

Service Number:	5333
Enlisted:	9 February 1916
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	22nd Infantry Battalion
Born:	St Arnaud, Victoria, Australia, 18 April 1892
Home Town:	Bacchus Marsh, Moorabool, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farmer
Died:	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 17 July 1967, aged 75 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne
Memorials:	Bendigo Great War Roll of Honor

World War 1 Service

9 Feb 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 5333, 22nd Infantry Battalion
28 Jul 1916:	Involvement Private, 5333, 22nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Themistocles embarkation_ship_number: A32 public_note: ''
28 Jul 1916:	Embarked Private, 5333, 22nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Themistocles, Melbourne
17 Apr 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 5333, 22nd Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private James Robert Crook (Service No:5333) enlisted in the AIF on 9 February 1916. He was a Lance Corporal when he embarked from Melbourne on 28 July 1916 on board HMAT Themistocles A32. By November 1916 he had reverted to Private and was in France with the 22nd Infantry Battalion - where he was WiA on two occasions (3 May 1917 GSW to the hand, and gassed on 17 July 1918) and hospitalised in England. On 18 January 1919, Private Crook embarked for England on board HT Ulysses bound for Melbourne, Victoria. He was Discharged on 17 April 1919. James was one of four brothers who served in WWI.

Born in 1892 at St Arnaud in Victoria, James was the fourth of nine children of Francis (Frank) Harbottle Crook (b1855 in Hobart, Tasmania) and first wife Hannah Elizabeth McCausland (b1859 at Kilfern Station in Benalla, Victoria). Frank (a Stock and Station Agent) and Hannah married in 1882 at Bacchus Marsh in Victoria where they settled and raised their family. Frank was an Auctioneer, Farmer, Clerk of Petty Sessions, Secretary of the Mechanics Institute and Free Library and the Bacchus Marsh Racing Club.

In 1909 James was seventeen years of age when he was listed as a Deserter from the RAN - a 'Boy' on board HMAS Psyche whilst in Sydney NSW (NSW Police Gazette; 26 May 1909). James settled at Bacchus Marsh in Victoria where he was a Farmer, and following WWI, in 1921 he married Minnie Louisa West (b1894 at St James in Moira, Victoria). Minnie was living with her parents and siblings in Bacchus Marsh. James and Minnie settled at Stanhope in Echuca, Victoria where James was a Farmer. By the mid 1930s James had a Confectionary and Tea Rooms in Colbinabbin, Echuca, Victoria. He served with the ACMF (Corporal; Service No:V84719) from 1940 to 1947.

James and Minnie settled in Melbourne, Victoria where James worked as a Groundsman. Minnie died in 1963 and James in 1967.

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