CROOKS, Percy Leonard

Percy Crooks is 4th from the left.


Service Number: 8232
Rank: Not known
Enlistment Unit: 6th Field Artillery
Transferred Unit: Not known or not applicable
Date of Enlistment: 5 August 1915
Enlistment Age: 22 or 23 years (conflicting records)
Fate of person: Returned to Australia

Biographical Details

Percy was born in Devonport in 1893 and he had four and a half years with the 91st Infantry before enlisting at Claremont in the 6th Field Artillery in August 1915. He was at the Front from April 1916 till the end of the war in 1918 apart from short spells of leave in England and Paris. After his return to Australia he married Mary Prosser at Holy Trinity in 1921 and lived in Trevallyn and Blackwell until his death in 1980.

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