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COOPER, Ernest Garnet
Personal Details
Service Number: | 6610 |
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Enlisted: | 17 April 1916, Enlisted at Blackboy Hill, WA |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 4th Light Trench Mortar Battery |
Born: | Gunnislake, Cornwall, England, July 1889 |
Home Town: | Kalgoorlie, Kalgoorlie/Boulder, Western Australia |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Miner |
Died: | Wooroloo, Western Australia, 1 May 1940, cause of death not yet discovered |
Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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Service History
World War 1 Service
17 Apr 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6610, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), Enlisted at Blackboy Hill, WA | |
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13 Oct 1916: | Involvement Private, 6610, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Suffolk embarkation_ship_number: A23 public_note: '' | |
13 Oct 1916: | Embarked Private, 6610, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), HMAT Suffolk, Fremantle | |
19 May 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 4th Light Trench Mortar Battery, From 16th Battalion | |
4 Apr 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 6610, 4th Light Trench Mortar Battery, Discharged at the 5th Military District as medically unfit due to Epilepsy |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Son of John Cooper and Fanny Cooper nee Allen of Woodvilla', Deleware Road, Gunnislake, Cornwall, England.
Commenced return to Australia on 1 December 1918 aboard HT Balmoral Castle
Medal: British War Medal, Victory Medal