Biographies
“very slack”, and the Australians were criticised by the British for allowing two of the new Stokes mortars to be captured by the Germans. On Active Service SMH 5/5/1918 Hook - In loving memory of my dear son and brother, Corporal Harold Hook, killed in action at Bois Grenier, May 6, 1916 Somewhere in France our noble son Is resting now, his duty done. He faced the deadly shot and shell, And in the stress of battle fell The best he had to give he gave, And now he fills a hero's grave. Inserted by his loving mother and father and sisters, Gladys, Nellie, Phyllis and Nita. Hook - In loving memory of our dear brother... He was responsive to his country’s call And gave his best, his life, his all Inserted by his loving brothers, Jack, Walter, and Tom (on active service) Hook - In loving memory of my dear nephew... He lived as he died Honourable and true Inserted by his loving uncle, Jack McGuire. Hook -... my dear nephew... In a hero’s grave he is lying Somewhere in France he fell Inserted by his loving aunt, uncle and cousins, M. Peter and family, of Wollongong Portrait and biography in The All Australia Memorial 1919 Roll of Honour, Canterbury District Tele/Mirror list 11/11/1993 Killed in action 6/5/1916 Anzac Memorial
Hook, Private Thomas Henry no. 1723 20th Battalion 2nd Reinforcements, later Australian Flying Corps Details “Phylis” Wade Street, Campsie. Electrician Born January 1895 at Campsie, son of Agustus T. & Ellen A. Hook Educated Glebe Public School Enlisted 8/6/1915, aged21. Single. Church of England. Next of kin, mother, Mrs E. Hook “Phyllis” Wade Street, Campsie. Embarked from Sydney 19/6/1915 per HMAT A61 Kanowna. War service: Egypt, France, Belgium; served continuously with the unit until gassed at Messines, 1917; invalided to Birmingham and Harefield Hospitals; recovered and rejoined unit, serving until the Armistice Casualty List SMH 18/12/1917 Wounded (gas) Returned to Australia 11/5/1919. Sailed to Australia S.S. Zealandia, July 1, 1919, and discharged October 1919.
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Married Bessie E. Kenton 1924 Died 20/12/1956 aged 61. (no. 1723, Electrical & Mechanical Mining & Boring Company) Row 14, Panel E, Rookwood Cemetery Garden of Remembrance Portrait and biography in The All Australia Memorial 1919 Roll of Honour, Canterbury District
Hooper, Private Albert James no.2080 35th Battalion 3rd Reinforcements “Milville” Olive Street, Canterbury [i.e. Kingsgrove], Compositor Enlisted 3/4/1916, aged 27. Single. Church of England. Next of kin, sister, Mrs S. Moss, “Milville” Olive Street, Canterbury. Private Hooper lived at 78 Annandale Street at enlistment. Embarked from Sydney 24/8/1916 per HMAT A68 Anchises Returned to Australia 11/5/1919 Married Margaret Blake 1924
Horan, Private Harold E. H. no.4218 1st Battalion, 13th Reinforcements, later 5th Pioneer Battalion Flora Street, Lakemba. Labourer Born 1886, son of Thomas Michael & Eliza Horan Married Ada M. Kelly 1907. She died 1926. Enlisted 15/9/1915 Aged 27, Married. C of E. Labourer. Next of kin: Mother, Mrs Eliza Horan, Flora Street, Lakemba, NSW. Casualty list DT 7/11/1916 Wounded Returned to Australia 13/4/1919 Married Maud S. Manley 1927 Died at Redfem 1931 Roll of Honour, Canterbury District
Horan, Private Morton Walter Thomas no.904 34th Battalion Flora Street, Lakemba Born 1880, son of Thomas Michael & Eliza Horan Married Eva A Stanton 1902 Enlisted 25/11/1915 Casualty list SMH 27/6/1918 Wounded Returned to Australia 2/3/1919 Lakemba RSC Roll of Honour
Hord, Gunner Henry McC. no. 15658 6th Army Battery Ammunition Column, 6th (Army) Field Artillery Brigade, formerly 2nd Division Ammunition Column 5th Reinforcements “Maraham” Croydon Street, Lakemba. Carpenter Born in New Zealand, August 28, 1880, son of