COOKE, William Cecil
| Service Number: | 16152 |
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| Enlisted: | 11 January 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Gunner |
| Last Unit: | 14th Field Artillery Brigade |
| Born: | Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 8 November 1882 |
| Home Town: | Hobart, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 11 November 1955, aged 73 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 11 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Gunner, 16152, 1st Divisional Ammunition Column | |
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| 4 Jul 1916: | Involvement Gunner, 16152, 1st Divisional Ammunition Column, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '22' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Berrima embarkation_ship_number: A35 public_note: '' | |
| 4 Jul 1916: | Embarked Gunner, 16152, 1st Divisional Ammunition Column, HMAT Berrima, Melbourne | |
| 12 May 1918: | Embarked AIF WW1, Gunner, 16152, 14th Field Artillery Brigade , embarked England for RTA on board HT Gaika | |
| 9 Aug 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, Gunner, 16152, 14th Field Artillery Brigade |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Gunner William Cecil Cooke (Service No:16152) enlisted in the AIF on 11 January 1916 and was attached to 1st Divisional Ammunition Column when he embarked from Melbourne for England on board HMAT A35 Berrima on 4 July 1916. Transferred to 14th Field Artillery Brigade in France, Gunner Cooke was hospitalised in England suffering deafness due to Shell Concussion. He embarked for the RTA on 12 May 1918 on board HT Gaika and was Discharged on 8 August 1918.
Born in 1882 in Hobart Tasmania, William was the seventh of nine children of William Reynolds Cooke (b1841 in Kent, ENgland) and Lucy Symons (b1845 in Hobart, Tasmania). William Snr had arrived in Hobart as a small child with his parents - his father's Regiment was posted to Hobart and later Norfolk Island for a time. William Snr (a Compositor with the Government Printing Office in Hobart) and Lucy married in 1870 in Hobart where they settled and raised their family. William Snr worked for the Government Printing Office until his retirement in 1914, when he and Lucy moved to New Zealand. William Snr was Drum Major with the Old Garrison Artillery Band and a Member of the Victoria Tent of the Rechabite Order for seventy three years.
William worked as a Clerk in Hobart before his enlistment in WWI, and returned to Hobart following his Discharge. In 1924 William was in Melbourne, Victoria working as a Law Clerk when he married Coral (Lizzie) Lysbeth Atkins (b1888 in Evandale, Tasmania). William and Lizzzie settled in Melbourne where they raised their family and William worked as a Clerk. Following Lizzie's death in 1947, William remarried in 1949 to Agnes Lillian Good (b1893 in Kyneton, Victoria). William and Agnes settled in Melbourne, where William died in 1955. Agnes died in 1977.