COHEN, Lipman
| Service Number: | 3359 |
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| Enlisted: | 21 August 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Divisional Signal Company |
| Born: | London, England, 1900 |
| Home Town: | Watsons Bay, Woollahra, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Sydney Technical High School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Memorials: | Sydney Technical High School WW1 Roll Of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 21 Aug 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3359, 54th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 24 Jan 1917: | Involvement Private, 3359, 54th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Anchises embarkation_ship_number: A68 public_note: '' | |
| 24 Jan 1917: | Embarked Private, 3359, 54th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Anchises, Sydney | |
| 14 Jul 1917: | Promoted AIF WW1, Sapper, 2nd Divisional Signal Company, Promoted from Private to Sapper | |
| 22 Dec 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Sapper, 3359, 2nd Divisional Signal Company, Discharged from 2nd Divisonal Signal Company |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Sydney Technical High School
Lipman Cohen was born anywhere between the years of 1898-1900 (1)(2). Lipman Cohen was one of the smartest in Tech, as he challenged many of those in his class, being 3rd in 1B’s class of 1913 (3). These grades mostly originated from his abilities in mathematics and engineering related skills (4), where he achieved some of the highest marks in his class for that year. After school Cohen was employed as a clerk (around where he lived in Woollahra) (7).Prior to his enlistment, Cohen was in Senior Cadets for four years (5)
On August the first in 1916, Cohen completed a medical check (8) to observe whether or not he was fit to be placed into a battalion and to be sent off to the warfronts. He was deemed fit and on the 21st of August 1916, Lipman Cohen enlisted into the Australian military, and only a couple days later on the 26th, he was appointed to the Dubbo Depot Battalion (9).
He trained at Dubbo until 24th of January 1917, when Cohen embarked from Sydney (Australia) on the HMAT Anchises A68 (10) toward Devonport. Once in the United Kingdom on the 27th of March (11), Cohen participated in activities such as ‘Home Service’ (12) in Hurdcott (UK), a task of which was used to keep order in Allied countries.
Later, Cohen joined the 2nd Division Signals Corps (part of the 54th Battalion, 9th Reinforcement) on the 13th of July 1917 (13), a unit specialising in field engineers, reminiscent of Cohen’s late skills reflected in school. The next day his title had changed from Private to Sapper (14). He trained with the Signal Corp until he was sent to the Western Front on the 14th of December 1917 (15). He was taken on strength 2nd Deivision Signal Battalion and served with them until he became ill with a fever in June 1918 and was sent to hospital. He was sent back to his unit 19th June 1918.
After the war ended Cohen took leave in England for a couple of weeks and then he assisted with the clean-up in France uintil May 1919 when he returned to England to prepare for repatriation back to Australia..
Cohen embarked for Australia (20) on the 7th of July 1919 and was discharged from the 2nd Division Signals Corps 22nd December 1919 (21). The knowledge of any kind of marriage or further children is unknown, only that from the information of electoral rolls told he was a sales agent (22) from 1930-1943. Cohen’s mother and father had died in the years of 1942 and 1946 respectively (23), as reported in death rolls in the newspapers.
Bibliography
Adfa.edu.au. (2024). Unit Details. [online] Available at: https://aif.adfa.edu.au/showUnit?unitCode=INF54REIN9
Awm.gov.au. (2024). Lipman Cohen. [online] Available at: https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R1906326
Following the Twenty-Second. (2017). Troop Ships. [online] Available at: https://anzac-22nd-battalion.com/troop-ships/
THS CLASS 1B 1913 . (n.d.). (Google Drive Document)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11J0hah97ADQd4pm1UIo3vPvtqwM47ocebWzdKlsVzds/edit (example Biography)
Ken Stevenson, Lipman Cohen, World War 1 Honour Board Project, World Document https://docs.google.com/document/d/18K738FHXo0pK7gD2xQf_pbpXVRfstEnE/edit
Australian Militia System explanation document https://www.jstor.org/stable/44697838?seq=1
Awm.gov.au. (2024b). Lipman Cohen. [online] Available at: https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R2174087
Larkins, S. (n.d.). 2nd Divisional Signal Company. [online] vwma.org.au. Available at: https://vwma.org.au/explore/units/231
Naa.gov.au. (2024). Abbreviations used in First World War and Second World War service records | naa.gov.au. [online] Available at: https://www.naa.gov.au/explore-collection/defence-and-war-service-records/researching-war-service/abbreviations-used-first-world-war-and-second-world-war-service-records
vwma.org.au. (n.d.). 54th Infantry Battalion. [online] Available at: https://vwma.org.au/explore/units/323
Endnotes:
Ken Stevenson, Lipman Cohen, World War 1 Honour Board Project, World Document
Multiple Anonymous, Lipman Cohen, National Archives of Australia, Records of past documents
Ibid, Ken Stevenson
Ibid, NAA Doc.
Ibid, NAA Doc.
Ibid, Ken Stevenson
Ibid, NAA Doc.
Ibid, NAA Doc.
Ibid, NAA Doc.
Following the Twenty-Second. (2017). Troop Ships. [online] Available at: https://anzac-22nd-battalion.com/troop-ships/.
Adfa.edu.au. (2024). Unit Details. [online] Available at: https://aif.adfa.edu.au/showUnit?unitCode=INF54REIN9
Awm.gov.au. (2024). Lipman Cohen. [online] Available at: https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R1906326
Ibid, NAA Doc.
Ibid, NAA Doc.
Ibid, NAA Doc.
Ibid, NAA Doc.
Ibid, NAA Doc.
Ibid, NAA Doc.
Ibid, NAA Doc.
Ibid, NAA Doc.
Ibid, NAA Doc.
Ibid, NAA Doc.
Ibid, NAA Doc.
Ibid, Ken Stevenson- Electoral Rolls
Ibid, Ken Stevenson- Death Notices
Note: lots of references in Bib. are missing in Endnotes. Bib. was mostly about gaining understanding on the actual documents and giving more context.