Arthur Garnsey HOOKE

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Service Number:	39656
Enlisted:	11 December 1917, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria
Last Rank:	Gunner
Last Unit:	5th Field Artillery Brigade
Born:	Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia, 29 May 1898
Home Town:	Hawthorn, Boroondara, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Clerk
Died:	Balwyn, Victoria, Australia, 12 April 1970, aged 71 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne
Memorials:

11 Dec 1917:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 39656, Field Artillery Brigades, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria
12 Mar 1918:	Promoted AIF WW1, Gunner, Field Artillery Brigades, Prior to embarking
30 Apr 1918:	Embarked Gunner, 39656, Field Artillery Brigades, SS Port Darwin, Sydney
30 Apr 1918:	Involvement Gunner, 39656, Field Artillery Brigades, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: SS Port Darwin embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: ''
12 Oct 1918:	Transferred AIF WW1, Gunner, 2nd Divisional Ammunition Column
16 Oct 1918:	Transferred AIF WW1, Gunner, 5th Field Artillery Brigade
3 Nov 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Gunner, 39656, 5th Field Artillery Brigade , Discharged at the 3rd Military District

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Son of Frederick Garnsey Hooke and Mary Evangeline Hooke nee Billing of John Street, Hawthorn, Victoria

Commenced return to Australia on 23 July 1919 aboard HT Main disembarking on 11 October 1919

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

During 1928c Arthur married Ida Joan Bainbridge in Victoria