Vivian Edward HOOK MID

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Service Numbers:	6293, 6293
Enlisted:	13 September 1915, Enlisted at Warwick Farm, NSW
Last Rank:	Lance Corporal
Last Unit:	1st Field Company Engineers
Born:	North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1895
Home Town:	North Sydney, North Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Storeman
Died:	Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia, 16 May 1960, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Northern Suburbs Memorial Gardens and Crematorium, NSW
Memorials:

13 Sep 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 6293, 1st Field Company Engineers, Enlisted at Warwick Farm, NSW
21 Mar 1916:	Involvement Sapper, 6293, 1st Field Company Engineers, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Armadale embarkation_ship_number: A26 public_note: ''
21 Mar 1916:	Embarked Sapper, 6293, 1st Field Company Engineers, HMAT Armadale, Sydney
27 Apr 1917:	Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 1st Field Company Engineers, In France
16 Mar 1919:	Honoured Mention in Dispatches, London Gazette on 11 July 1919, page 8829, position 39 Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 30 October 1919, page 1655, position 17
15 Dec 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 6293, 1st Field Company Engineers, Discharged at the 2nd Military District

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Son of James Nicholas Croft Hook and Sarah Harriett Eliza Hook nee Evans of Emmett Street, North Sydney, NSW

Commenced return to Australia on 12 May 1919 aboard HT Soudan disembarking on 1 July 1919

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

During 1923 Vivian married Ellen Davenport in St. Leonards, NSW