Birt Thomas COOK

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COOK, Birt Thomas

Service Number:	SX105
Enlisted:	20 October 1939
Last Rank:	Staff Sergeant
Last Unit:	2nd/3rd Field Company / Squadron RAE
Born:	Adelaide, SA, 15 May 1911
Home Town:	Prospect, Prospect, South Australia
Schooling:	Thebarton School
Occupation:	Unemployed
Died:	23 September 1992, aged 81 years, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia Sutton Court, Wall 4, Niche B022
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World War 2 Service

20 Oct 1939:	Involvement SX105
20 Oct 1939:	Enlisted Keswick, SA
20 Oct 1939:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Staff Sergeant, SX105
5 Apr 1945:	Discharged
5 Apr 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Staff Sergeant, SX105, 2nd/3rd Field Company / Squadron RAE

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Mr and Mrs E.W. COOK of 46 Gladstone Road, Mile End, SA. Birt was educated at the Thebarton School and followed outdoor sports and played football in suburbs and hills district and then for Angaston in the 1939 season. Residing at 85 Sussex Street Lower North Adelaide, he worked at I.C.I. for several years in Dry Creek and Angaston and enlisted in October 1939. He was the first employee to enlist from I.C.I. and left Australia in May 1940 for England and after 6 months went to the Middle East and saw service in Tobruk.

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