Albert Edwin COOPER

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Service Numbers:	55585, V365117
Enlisted:	8 April 1918, Enlisted at Warragul, Victoria
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	AIF Headquarters
Born:	Burwood, Victoria, Australia, 7 February 1899
Home Town:	Childers, Baw Baw, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farmer
Died:	Maffra, Victoria, Australia, 1965, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne Cremation serve held on 19 August 1965 and remains were collected
Memorials:

8 Apr 1918:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 55585, 1st to 17th (VIC) Reinforcements, Enlisted at Warragul, Victoria
23 Jul 1918:	Embarked Private, 55585, 1st to 17th (VIC) Reinforcements, HMAT Marathon, Melbourne
23 Jul 1918:	Involvement Private, 55585, 1st to 17th (VIC) Reinforcements, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '20' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Marathon embarkation_ship_number: A74 public_note: ''
27 Sep 1918:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 7th Infantry Battalion, From re-inforcements
6 Jan 1919:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, AIF Headquarters, At Tidworth, England
17 Dec 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 55585, AIF Headquarters, Discharged at the 3rd Military District

29 Mar 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, V365117

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Son of Albert Edward Cooper and Annie Cooper nee Kirk of Childers, Victoria

Commenced return to Australia 6 October 1919 aboard Pakeka disembarking on 24 November 1919

Medal: British War Medal

During 1931c Albert married Phyllis Alice Annie Batchelor in Victoria