COGGER, Emile Ernest
| Service Number: | 3783 |
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| Enlisted: | 7 August 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 23rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Upper Macedon, Victoria, Australia, 11 October 1895 |
| Home Town: | Kyneton, Macedon Ranges, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Green Hill State School, Kyneton High School, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | School teacher |
| Died: | Septic Tonsilitis, Connaught Hospital, Aldershot, Hampshire, England, 22 July 1916, aged 20 years |
| Cemetery: |
Brookwood Military Cemetery, Pirbright, Surrey, England, United Kingdom Plot IV, Row I, Grave No. 1 |
| Tree Plaque: |
Macedon Honour Avenue
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| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Kyneton High School Great War Honour Roll, Kyneton Honour Roll, Kyneton Presbyterian Church Honor Roll WW1, Kyneton War Memorial, Metcalfe War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 7 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3783, Depot Battalion | |
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| 8 Feb 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 3783, 23rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Warilda embarkation_ship_number: A69 public_note: '' | |
| 8 Feb 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 3783, 23rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Warilda, Melbourne | |
| 22 Jul 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 3783, 23rd Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 3783 awm_unit: 23 Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1916-07-22 | |
| 22 Jul 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, Transferred to Frencham Hill Mil. Hospital. 18.7.16. Died suddenly 22.7.16. Aldershot England. |
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The summary below was completed by Cathy Sedgwick – Facebook “WW1 Australian War Graves in England/UK/Scotland/Ireland
Died on this date – 22nd July…… Emile Ernest Cogger was born at Upper Macedon, Victoria on 11th October, 1895.
He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force (A.I.F.) on 7th August, 1915 as a 20 year old, single, School Teacher from Green Hills, via Kyneton, Victoria.
Private Emile Ernest Cogger, Service number 3783, embarked from Melbourne, Victoria on HMAT Warilda (A69) on 8th February, 1916 with the 6th Infantry Brigade, 23rd Infantry Battalion, 9th Reinforcements.
On 21st March, 1916 Private Cogger embarked from Alexandria on H. T. Orana & disembarked at Marseilles, France on 27th March, 1916.
He was admitted to 20th General Hospital at Camiers on 31st March, 1916 with Scabies from Australian Divisional Base Depot at Etaples. Private Cogger was discharged to duty on 7th April, 1916 & rejoined 2nd Australian Divisional Base Depot on the same day. He proceeded from 2nd Australian Divisional Base Depot on 15th June, 1916 & was taken on strength of 23rd Battalion in France the same day.
Private Cogger reported sick on 8th July, 1916 & was admitted to 7th Field Ambulance on 9th July, 1916 with Septic Hand & Debility. He was transferred to No. 12 Casualty Clearing Station on 9th July, 1916 with “I C T Hand & Debility”. Private Cogger was transferred to No. 1 Ambulance Train on 11th July, 1916 & was admitted to No. 3 Canadian Hospital at Boulogne, France on the same day with Tonsilitis. He was transferred to England on Hospital Ship Cambria on 13th July, 1916.
On 13th July, 1916 Private Cogger was admitted to Frensham Hill Military Hospital, England. He was transferred to Connaught Hospital at Aldershot, Hampshire on 18th July, 1916.
Private Emile Ernest Cogger died “suddenly” at 8.30 am on 22nd July, 1916 at Connaught Hospital, Aldershot, Hampshire, England from Septic Tonsilitis. The Hospital Admissions form recorded “Admitted with Tonsillitis, became suddenly ill with heart failure and died in a few hours. At autopsy nil alummal (?) other than granular degeneration of heart muscle found and death was evidently due to toxic myocarditis.”
He was buried on 26th July, 1916 in Church of England Ground in Aldershot Military Cemetery, Hampshire, England – Grave No. 2004. His name was listed as Edward Ernest Cogger on the Burial Register.
On 19th April, 1920 Base Records wrote to Mr T. Cogger, Green Hill, via Kyneton, Victoria, with the following: “With reference to my communication of the 5th March, 1917, regarding the regrettable loss of your son the late No. 3783 Private E. E. Cogger, 23rd Battalion, I am now in receipt of further advice which shows that his remains have been exhumed from grave No. 2004 Aldershot Cemetery, and re-interred in grave No. 320, Australian Section F, Brookwood Cemetery, Brookwood, England, This work is carried out with every measure of care and reverence in the presence of a Chaplain.”
Private Emile Ernest Cogger’s body was removed from Aldershot & re-interred in Brookwood Military Cemetery, Surrey, England on 30th June, 1919.
There are around 360 WW1 Australian War Graves located in Brookwood Military Cemetery.
(The above is a summary of my research. The full research can be found by following the link below)
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Biography contributed by Andreena Hockley
Emil Ernest Cogger, son of Mr. Thomas Cogger, of Green Hill, near Kyneton, was born in October, 1895. He attended the Kyneton High School in 1912-13, and was appointed junior teacher at School 1912, Footscray, in 1914. He was a good teacher, always active and willing.
He enlisted on the 7th of August, 1915, and embarked with the 9th Reinforcements to the 23rd Battalion. After a period of training in Egypt, he went to France on the 21st of March, 1916, and joined his unit on the 15th of June. He went into hospital, sick, on the 8th of July, and was invalided to England on the 13th. He died at Connaught Hospital, Aldershot, on the 22nd, of septic poisoning in the throat from wounds he had received in France.
Source: The Education Department's Record of War Service, Victoria, 1914-1919.
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