Sydney Featherstone COOPER

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COOPER, Sydney Featherstone

Service Number:	3576
Enlisted:	6 September 1917, Gormanston
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	40th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Hanley, Staffordshire, England, 1898
Home Town:	Gormanston, West Coast, Tasmania
Schooling:	State School
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Killed in Action, Amiens, France, 26 May 1918
Cemetery:	Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery Plot XX, Row E, Grave 10, Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Queenstown Gormanston Brass Band Roll of Honour

World War 1 Service

6 Sep 1917:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3576, 40th Infantry Battalion, Gormanston
30 Oct 1917:	Involvement Private, 3576, 40th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Aeneas embarkation_ship_number: A60 public_note: ''
30 Oct 1917:	Embarked Private, 3576, 40th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Aeneas, Melbourne
26 May 1918:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 3576, 40th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

Sydney Featherstone COOPER was born in Hanley, Staffordshire, England in 1898

His parents were Sydney Featherstone COOPER & Mary Ellen HIGGINBOTHAM

He enlisted in Gormanston, Tasmania on 6th September, 1917 and embarked from Melbourne with the 40th Infantry Battalion, 9th reinforcements on the HMAT Aeneas on 30th October, 1917

Sydney was Killed in Action in Villers-Bretonneux , Amiens in France on 26th May, 1918 and is buried in the Villers Bretonneux Military Cemetery

Inscription reads:

"IN MEMORY OF THE DEARLY LOVED SON OF MR. & MRS COOPER OF GORMANSTON"

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His brother Leonard COOPER (SN 3394) also served in WW1 and returned to Australia in 1918 - he then served during WW2 (SN N282006)

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