Herbert Julius Crook was born at East Harling, Norfolk on 28th July 1901.

Herbert had enlisted as a volunteer into the Royal Army Medical Corps on 10th December 1919 via Aldershot.

Nothing of his service records survive, but we know that other men with consecutive service numbers to his enlisted on that date, so it is reasonable to assume that’s when he joined.

Equally, other men in that draft were sent to India with the 91st reinforcement draft on 18th March 1920, so we assume Herbert followed that usual route to Mesopotamia. 

We know nothing else of his service, but now seems highly probable Herbert was part of the 24th Combined Field Ambulance and the 'Manchester Column' when he was taken 'prisoner of war' on 24th July 1920 as part of the Arab revolt.

Herbert has no known grave and is commemorated on the Basra Memorial.