HOOK, William Bede
| Service Number: | Officer |
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| Enlisted: | 27 April 1918, Enlisted in NSW |
| Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | 1st Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Tamworth, New South Wales, 13 October 1887 |
| Home Town: | Glebe, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Armidale School, New South Wales |
| Occupation: | Accountant |
| Died: | Natural Causes, Bulleen, Vic., 1958 |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Glebe Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| 27 Apr 1918: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, Officer, 1st to 15th (NSW) Reinforcements, Enlisted in NSW | |
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| 17 Jul 1918: | Involvement 1st to 15th (NSW) Reinforcements, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '20' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Borda embarkation_ship_number: A30 public_note: '' | |
| 17 Jul 1918: | Embarked 1st to 15th (NSW) Reinforcements, HMAT Borda, Sydney | |
| 17 Jan 1919: | Transferred AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 1st Infantry Battalion | |
| 19 Mar 1919: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 1st Infantry Battalion | |
| 8 Jan 1920: | Discharged AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 1st Infantry Battalion, Discharged at the 2nd Military District |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
William Bede Hook was born in 1887 to Joseph and Annie in Tamworth, in the Colony of New South Wales. He was one of five siblings and had a twin brother Charles Peel Hook (1887-1963, Sergeant in the Great War, Captain in the Second World War). An accountant by trade, he married his fiancée, Esther Ingrey in 1912, having two children Kathleen in 1912 and William Maurice in 1915.
William served over a decade with various volunteer militia units obtaining the rank of Captain before enlisting in the Australian Imperial Forces in April 1918, as a 2nd Lieutenant. He left Australia in July 1918 and arrived in France in December of that year. He returned to Australia in December 1919 and was discharged in January 1920
There is no further information post his service in the Great War, other than his son Lieutenant William Maurice Hook served in the Second World War.
William Bede Hook passed away in Bulleen, Victoria in 1958, aged 71, he was survived by his two children, his wife Esther had passed the previous year.
Ref –
New South Wales Births, Deaths and Marriages website
Victorian, Births, Deaths and Marriages website
Trove National Library of Australia website
William Bede Hook (1890-abt.1942) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree
S. Cox, PM, March 2023
Biography contributed by Carol Foster
Son of Joseph Hook and Annie Hook of Glebe, NSW
Husband of Esther L. Hook nee Ingrey of Hereford Street, Glebe Point, NSW. William and Esther married during 1912c in Glebe, NSW
Between 24 March 1919 and 24 June 1919 he studied Commercial Training with George William College, Y.M.C.A. Tottenham Court Road, London, England
Return to Australia aboard HT Nestor on 10 November 1919
Medal: British War Medal
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