COOK, Cyril Edmund
| Service Numbers: | 19539, WX30995 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Army Medical Corps (AIF) |
| Born: | Birregurra, Victoria, Australia, 2 July 1898 |
| Home Town: | Coolup, Murray, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Wesley College, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Medical Student [WW1], Medical Practitioner [WW2] |
| Died: | Claremont, Western Australia, 19 April 1967, aged 68 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia Crematorium Rose Gardens, Wall P, Position 0049 |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 5 Jun 1918: | Embarked Private, 19539, Army Medical Corps (AIF), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: RMS Orontes embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' |
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World War 2 Service
| Date unknown: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Major, WX30995 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Ian Fox
Cyril Cook enlisted in the AIF on 31 October 1917 and was discharged on 9 June 1919. He was a second year medical student and served in France with the 3rd Australian General Hospital [Australian Army Medical Corps] as a Nursing Orderly.
During WW2, Cyril [now a Medical Practitioner] was a Major and initially served with the Australian Army Medical Corps Training Depot. He was based mainly in Western Australia and served from August 1940 until February 1944.
From The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
Dr Cyril Edmund Cook
MBBS (Melbourne, 1922), FFARACS.
He had served as a foot soldier in the First World War and as a medical officer in the Second. He was the first specialist anaesthetist appointed to the honorary staff of Fremantle Hospital (1938–1959). He became a Foundation Fellow of the Faculty of Anaesthetists of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1962.
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