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AIF Pte 1026 Crook, William Charles ( Chas )
Private 16th Infantry Battalion, F Company ;
Date of birth :
Born: Horspath, Oxfordshire, England, UK
School : Horspath National School, Oxfordshire, England
Son of Thomas William & Alice Jane, Crook, Horspath, Oxfordshire, England
Next of kin: Father, Thomas William Crook, Horspath, Oxfordshire, England
Address : (near Church, near Wheatley) Horspath, Oxfordshire, England
Religion : Church of England
Occupation: Bricklayer, apprenticed 3 years John Woolridge
Marital Status : Single
Enlisted AIF : 12 September 1914, Adelaide
Morphettville Camp Training Base F Coy : 1914
Embarked 22 Dec 1914 HMAT Ceramic A40, Melbourne, Victoria
Age at embarkation : 23
Death: Died of Wounds 6 May 1916 on Hospital Ship Gascon en route to Alexandria ( only HS allocated to ANZAC at that time ) ;
Buried next day Alexandria 7 May 1915, age 24
Place of Burial : Chatby War Memorial Cemetery (Row A, Grave No 72), Alexandria, Egypt
Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial (AWM) 79
Served: Egypt, Gallipoli 25 April 1915 – 2nd May 1915 ;
fatally wounded at Bloody Angle night charge & morning withdrawal, as a lead up to failed attempts to retake Baby 700 ;
Medals : 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

1911 Sailed ( on the RMS Orontes ? ) for Australia to visit his " Colonial " Cousins, the Harris Family : Charles " Chas " Harris, Coachbuilder, John Street, off Wright Street, City ( Adelaide )
Adelaide could well have been his ( adopted ) Home Town after living there for 4 years ( 1911 - 1914 ) ;
1912 followed the following year by his older Brother Thomas ( Tommy ) G Crook ( on the Otway ? )

Painting by Silas, Ellis returned AIF Signaller ; 7.15 pm Attack by 4th Australian Infantry Brigade at Bloody Angle, Anzac May 1915 : Soldiers attacking up a ridge with considerable shellfire on top of the ridge. Other soldiers lying in a trench injured, with dead soldiers in the foreground. Bloody Angle was located between Pope's Hill and Quinn's Post on the Gallipoli Peninsula. It was in this location that John Simpson Kirkpatrick was fatally wounded in May 1915

Quinn's Post Cemetery
Chaplain Frederick Wray made the first of almost daily trips to bury the dead at Quinn's. His diary during the early days of the campaign revealed the frequency of his visits.
April 28 – At 12.30 reached 14th lines on Quinn's Corner… at 2.30am buried 29, including two NZ officers.
April 30 – Went up to Quinn's Corner and buried 5 men.
May 1 – Buried 1 man at Gully cemetery and 9 at Quinn's Corner.
May 2 – Buried 7 at Gully cemetery and 3 at Quinn's Corner
May 3 – An awful day… The 16th were enfiladed by machine guns and did not hold their trenches… the 16th lost 400 out of 600, the 13th 200… Saw a sniper get 7 out of 8 at Quinn's Corner and he got Lt Binnie… I buried 8, including Lts Binnie and Freeman at Quinn's Corner.
[Chaplain Frederick William Wray, PR00247, AWM]

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