COOPER, Warwick
Service Number: | 454 |
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Enlisted: | 29 August 1916 |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 2nd Machine Gun Company |
Born: | Waverley, New South Wales, Australia, 1897 |
Home Town: | Mount George, Greater Taree, New South Wales |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Horse Breaker |
Died: | Newtown, New South Wales, Australia, 22 November 1966, cause of death not yet discovered |
Cemetery: |
Northern Suburbs Memorial Gardens and Crematorium, NSW East Terrace 3, Wall 20 |
Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
29 Aug 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 454, 2nd Machine Gun Battalion | |
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29 Aug 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 454, 9th Machine Gun Company, Enlisted at Sydney, NSW | |
22 Dec 1916: | Embarked Private, 454, 9th Machine Gun Company, HMAT Persic, Melbourne | |
22 Dec 1916: | Involvement Private, 454, 9th Machine Gun Company, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Persic embarkation_ship_number: A34 public_note: '' | |
23 May 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 5th Machine Gun Company, In France. From the 9th Machine Gun Company | |
25 Jul 1918: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 2nd Machine Gun Company, From 5th Machine Gun Company | |
14 Aug 1920: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 454, 2nd Machine Gun Company, Discharged at the 2nd Military District |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Warwick enlisted while under age being born in 1897 making his actual age about sixteen years
Address at the time of enlistment was 'Idalake', Mount George, Manning River, NSW
Son of Waldemar Leonard Smirnoff Cooper and Eliza Louisa Vaudine Cooper nee Agassiz of 'Carlowie', Drummoyne Avenue, Drummoyne, NSW
Husband of Beatrice Cooper nee Broad of West Gorton, England. Warwick and Beatrice married on 29 September 1919 in the Charlton Registry Office, England. A.A.H. Ramsbottom officiated
Returned to Australia on 21 June 1920 aboard Bahia Castillo
Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal