Ernest Robert COOPER

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Service Number:	157
Enlisted:	17 January 1916, Enlisted at Rockhampton, QLD
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	41st Infantry Battalion
Born:	Mackay, Queensland, Australia, 27 November 1890
Home Town:	Mackay, Mackay, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Mackay, Queensland, Australia, 15 April 1963, aged 72 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Mackay Cemetery, Qld
Memorials:	Mackay Old Town Hall Honour Roll, Townsville Railway Station Roll of Honour

17 Jan 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 157, 41st Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Rockhampton, QLD
18 May 1916:	Involvement Private, 157, 41st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Demosthenes embarkation_ship_number: A64 public_note: ''
18 May 1916:	Embarked Private, 157, 41st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Demosthenes, Sydney
26 May 1918:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 157, 41st Infantry Battalion, Gassed
12 Aug 1918:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 157, 41st Infantry Battalion, Second occasion. Shell wound to the right leg
5 Jul 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 157, 41st Infantry Battalion, Discharged at the 1st Military Districat as medically unfit due to wounding

Son of Robert William Cooper and Rebecca Lindsay Cooper nee Lockhead of 'Gargett', Mackay, QLD

Commenced return to Australia (invalided) on 31 March 1919 aboard HT Khyber disembarking on 21 May 1919

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

On 26 April 1923 Ernest married Elsie Lily Thorning in QLD

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