COHEN, George
| Service Number: | 6300 |
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| Enlisted: | 18 October 1916, Blackboy Hill, WA |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 27th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1881 |
| Home Town: | Perth, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Jockey |
| Died: | Died of Wounds, 3rd Casualty Clearing Station, Belgium, 22 September 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXIV F 1A |
| Memorials: | Victorian Jewish War Memorial, WA Jewish War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 18 Oct 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6300, 27th Infantry Battalion, Blackboy Hill, WA | |
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| 23 Dec 1916: | Involvement Private, 6300, 27th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Berrima embarkation_ship_number: A35 public_note: '' | |
| 23 Dec 1916: | Embarked Private, 6300, 27th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Berrima, Fremantle |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
PRIVATE GEORGE COHEN.
Private George Cohen (6300), 28th Battalion, who, it was announced in our last, was killed in action on 22nd September, enlisted in Western Australia, after having been rejected several times on account of his small stature. Private Cohen's persistency in his desire to enlist is worth recording. Finding that his height precluded him from being accepted, he was determined to make up in breadth for any deficiency that the recruiting officer might otherwise find in his physique. He therefore worked for ten months on a farm as a manual labourer, and on returning afterwards to the military depot was accepted. He was, however, owing to his height not being up to the standard, prevented from entering the firing line, but was placed in front as a bomb-thrower, where he was killed as reported. Private Cohen, who was thirty-four years of age, was the youngest son of Mr. Henry and the late Sophia Cohen, of Toorak, and brother of Mrs. Ethel Phillips, of Parliament Place, Melbourne, and had been a resident of Western Australia since the age of fifteen years.
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