CROCKFORD, Cyril Grove
Service Number: | 277 |
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Enlisted: | 22 August 1914, Enlisted at Randwick, NSW |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 2nd Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Cootamundra, New South Wales, Australia, 1893 |
Home Town: | North Sydney, North Sydney, New South Wales |
Schooling: | Superior Public School North Sydney, Metropolitan Business College |
Occupation: | Clerk |
Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 2 May 1915 |
Cemetery: |
Walkers Ridge Cemetery Special Memorial, Grave 7 Headstone inscription reads: Greater love hath no man he laid down his life for his friends, Walker's Ridge Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
22 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 277, 2nd (SA) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC), Enlisted at Randwick, NSW | |
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18 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 277, 2nd Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Suffolk embarkation_ship_number: A23 public_note: '' | |
18 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 277, 2nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Suffolk, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Son of Alfred Wentworth Crockford and Emily Rose Crockford of 'Sutton', Merrenburn Avenue, Naremburn, NSW
Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Also served in the cadets
Biography contributed by Faithe Jones
PRIVATE CROCKFORD.
Private Cyril Crockford (killed in action) was 21 years of age, and the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Crockford, Crow's Nest, North Sydney. He was educated at the Superior Public School, North Sydney, and at the Metropolitan Business College. Previous to enlisting he was on the staff of Messrs. Kemp, Campbell, and Co., Young-street, city.