CROOK, Cecil James
| Service Number: | 4562 |
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| Enlisted: | 10 November 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 19th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Adamstown, New South Wales, Australia, 29 September 1899 |
| Home Town: | Adamstown, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Clipper |
| Died: | Wounds, 58th Casualty Clearing Station, France, 4 October 1918, aged 19 years |
| Cemetery: |
Tincourt New British Cemetery Plot VI, Row F, Grave No. 12 , |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 10 Nov 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1 | |
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| 9 Apr 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 4562, 19th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Nestor embarkation_ship_number: A71 public_note: '' | |
| 9 Apr 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 4562, 19th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Nestor, Sydney | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement 19th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Let us remember a Fallen soldier of The Great War awaiting memorialisation at Sandgate Cemetery.
On the 4th October 1918, Private Cecil James Crook, 19th Battalion (Reg No-4562), clipper from Kembla Heights, South Coast, New South Wales, father of one (Cecil), Died of Wounds at 9 a.m. at the 58th Casualty Clearing Station, France, age 19.
Born at Adamstown, New South Wales on the 29th September 1899 to John (Jack, from Kembla Heights, South Coast, New South Wales and Coledale, N.S.W., died 22.9.1956, Hamilton, N.S.W., age 87, METHODIST 4-23. 37, name not inscribed on headstone plaque), and Ellen Crook nee Spain (died 2.5.1952, Hamilton, N.S.W., age 78, METHODIST 4-23. 37), from Coledale, N.S.W. and 14 St James Road, New Lambton, N.S.W.; husband of Annie Bessie Crook nee?, (married date and place unknown in England, re-married to Henry Pickering 1920, Kurri Kurri, N.S.W., from Coronation Street, Kurri Kurri, N.S.W. (1919) and Deakin Street, Kurri Kurri, N.S.W. and off Aberdare Street, Kurri Kurri, N.S.W., died 1957, Kurri Kurri, N.S.W., sleeping at?), Cecil enlisted on the 10th November 1915 at Holsworthy, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A71 Nestor on the 9th April 1916.
Disembarked at Plymouth 7.6.1916.
Granted furlough from 13.10.1916 to 27.10.1916.
Wounded in action - 23.7.1918 (gassed), 3.10.1918 (GSW shoulder, penetrating chest, severe).
Mr. Crook is resting at Tincourt New British Cemetery, France. Plot VI Row F Grave 12.
Place of Association – Adamstown, New South Wales, Australia.
I have not located Cecil’s name inscribed on any known War Memorial or Roll of Honour.
Unfortunately, there is no memorial inscription at the Crook gravesite to tell us of the loss of their son during The Great War, and I am unable to erect a Memorial cross, so I have placed poppies in remembrance of Cecil’s service and supreme sacrifice for God, King & Country. METHODIST 4-23. 37.
Three brothers served 1st A.I.F.
Older brother Daniel Crook (born 23.5.1893, Adamstown, New South Wales, labourer and timber worker (Sulphide Corporation Works, Cockle Creek, N.S.W.), from Hampden Avenue, Adamstown, New South Wales and 52 Mackie Avenue, New Lambton, N.S.W., enlisted 14.12.1915, 35th Battalion, Reg No-45, RTA 28.6.1919, resting at METHODIST 4-23. 44, no headstone, wooden cross erected - 22.5.2016, an application for a Commonwealth War Graves Plaque, curbing and marble chip submitted June 2022, declined August 2022, not officially commemorated).
Older brother Albert Thomas Crook (born 12.9.1897, Adamstown, New South Wales, miner from Northcote Street, Coledale, South Coast, New South Wales, enlisted 14.5.1918, 5th Australian Divisional Train, Reg No-58681, discharged 13.6.1919, also served with the Royal Fusiliers North Russia Relief Forces, Reg No-133055, RTA?, died 20.6.1973, Swansea, N.S.W., age 75, not officially commemorated).
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered“.
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/.
Lest We Forget.
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