HOOK, Norman Atlee
Service Number: | 573 |
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Enlisted: | 17 August 1914, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 38th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, 1893 |
Home Town: | Footscray, Maribyrnong, Victoria |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Wireman |
Died: | Bronchial pnuemonia, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia, 10 January 1969 |
Cemetery: |
Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne Cremation service held on 13 January 1969. Undertakers Garner & Son officiated |
Memorials: | Ballarat Victoria Street Baptist Church Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
17 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 573, 7th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria | |
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19 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 573, 7th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
19 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 573, 7th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Melbourne | |
8 May 1915: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 573, 7th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, Wound to the left hand. Transferred to Malta on 18 May 1925. | |
24 Sep 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 38th Infantry Battalion, In England | |
27 Mar 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 573, 39th Infantry Battalion, Second occasion. Wound to the left foot | |
8 Aug 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 573, 38th Infantry Battalion, Third occasion. Wound to the left leg | |
12 May 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 573, 38th Infantry Battalion, Discharged at the 3rd Military District as medically unfit due to wounds to the left leg |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Son of James Hook and Mary Ann Hook nee Vincent of Barkly Street, Footscray, Victoria formerly of Ballarat, Victoria
Commenced return to Australia on 12 December 1918 aboard HS Nestor disembarking on 1 February 1919
Medals: 1914-1915 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Husband of Margaret Scott Hook nee Laird of Cleeland Street, Dandenong, Victoria formerly of Queens Cross, Glasgow, Scotland. Norman and Margaret married on 10 October 1918 in the St. Margarets Parish Church, Glasgow, Scotland. Rev. Francis A. Brown officiated
Post war he was employed as a railway repairer from 1938 to 1953