Tasmanian War Casualties

WW1

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Rooke, Charles Keith Jago

Charles Keith Jago Rooke was born at Rampisham in Dorset on the 15th of February 1868 the sixth son of the Reverend Frederick John Rooke, Canon of Salisbury, and Ellen Trelawney (nee Jago) Rooke, of Rampisham

He became a solicitor in April 1891 where he became managing clerk and later a partner in the firm of Messrs Freeman and Son of 30A George Street Hanover Square in London.

He sailed for Tasmania in March 1914 with his brother where he lived at "Reeatta", Mangalore in Tasmania and worked as a solicitor.

He was promoted to Corporal on the 1st of September 1914.

He embarked Hobart on the 20th of October on “HMAT Geelong” bound for Egypt and after a brief stop at Albany in Western Australia they landed at Alexandria on the 9th of December. On the 2nd of March 1915 he embarked at Alexandria on board the “Devanha” for Lem in preparation for the attack on Gallipoli.

He was reported missing in action 25^th April 1915 on the Gallipoli Peninsula which a board of enquiry dated 5^th June 1916 found he had been killed in action on that date. He is commemorated on the Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli, Turkey.

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