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Robert Clive CROCKER

Place of birthWindsor, Victoria
SchoolScotch College, Melbourne, Victoria
Other trainingSolicitor of Supreme Court of Victoria
Address31 Riversdale Road, Hawthorn, Victoria
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation26
Next of kinFather, Henry Sayers Crocker, 31 Riversdale Road, Hawthorn, Victoria
Previous military serviceArmy Service Corps, 3.5 years; Australian Field Artillery, 2 years.
Enlistment date18 August 1914
Rank on enlistment2nd Lieutenant
Unit nameField Artillery Brigade 2, Brigade Ammunition Column
AWM Embarkation Roll number13/30/1
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A9 Shropshire on 20 October 1914
Rank from Nominal RollCaptain
Unit from Nominal Roll1st Divisional Artillery
Other details from Roll of Honour CircularAdmitted to the Bar in 1913
FateKilled in Action 12 July 1915
Place of death or woundingCape Helles, Gallipoli, Turkey
Age at death27
Age at death from cemetery records27
Place of burialPink Farm Cemetery (Special Memorial 22), Helles, Gallipoli
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
11
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: Henry and Margaret CROCKER, "Winfield", 31 Riverside Road, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia.
Other details

War service: Egypt, Gallipoli

Promoted Lieutenant, 1 February 1915.

Proceeded to join mEditerranean Expeditionary Force, 8 April 1915.

Promoted Captain, Gallipoli, 31 May 1915; transferred to 6th Battery, 31 May 1915.

Killed in action at Cape Helles, Gallipoli, on 12 July 1915 while serving as an observation officer; buried, 12 July 1915.

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
SourcesNAA: B2455, CROCKER Robert Clive

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