Robert HOOKS

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Service Number:	3158
Enlisted:	1 November 1916, Enlisted at Kalgoorle, WA
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	48th Infantry Battalion
Born:	St. Arnaud, Victoria, Australia, 2 August 1895
Home Town:	Boulder, Kalgoorlie/Boulder, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Miner
Memorials:	Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

1 Nov 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3158, 48th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Kalgoorle, WA
12 Oct 1917:	Imprisoned Captured at Ypres-Roules Railway on 12 October 1917 and interned in Limburg Camp, Germany on 17 October 1917. Repatriated to England
3 Aug 1920:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 3158, 48th Infantry Battalion, Discharged at the 5th Military District
Date unknown:	Wounded 3158, 48th Infantry Battalion

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Address at the time of enlistment was given as Piesse Street, Boulder

Son of Robert Alexander Hooks and Mary Dislena Hooks nee Lanfranchis of Sanatorium. Wooroloo, WA

Commenced return to Australia on 17 April 1920 aboard HT Bahia Castille disembarking on 10 June 1920

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

During 1921c Robert married Edith A. Edwards in Coolgardie, WA

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