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GROCOCK, Eric
| Service Number: | 316 |
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| Enlisted: | 21 January 1915, at Oaklands |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 27th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Petersburg, South Australia, Australia, 1895 |
| Home Town: | Mile End, City of West Torrens, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, New Thebarton Lodge No 23 U.A.O.D. Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 21 Jan 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 316, 27th Infantry Battalion, at Oaklands | |
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| 31 May 1915: | Involvement Private, 316, 27th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Geelong embarkation_ship_number: A2 public_note: '' | |
| 31 May 1915: | Embarked Private, 316, 27th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Geelong, Adelaide | |
| 4 Aug 1916: | Imprisoned Battle for Pozières , Eric Grocock was interned at Dulmen Germany. | |
| Date unknown: | Wounded 316, 27th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Adelaide High School
World War 1 soldier Eric Grocock grew up in South Australia, he lived on Devon Street Mile End. Before the war, his occupation was a labourer. A person he had to leave behind was his mother Mrs J Grocock, who he lived with. He was 6'1 and a half and weighed 68.95 kg, he had grey eyes and a fair complexion. He was single and the religion he followed was Methodist.
His age at embarkation was 19 years old and was enlisted on the 21st of January 1915. His service number was 316. He was a part of the 27th Infantry Battalion: their colours were brown over blue and they initially consisted of 800 - 1,000 men.
He served on Gallipoli until the evacuation. When subsequently reforming in Egypt, and after being shipped to France, he was several times in trouble for skipping parade or being absent without leave, and on one occasion he lost all his equipment. Grocock went missing in the fighting at Pozières on 4th August 1916 but it was subsequently confirmed he had been taken prisoner by the Germans and was interned in Dulmen Germany. He served out the war in a POW camp and was repatriated to England on the 11th of December 1918.
No details are known of Grocock's life after the war, although he was still alive in 1967.