Robert COOPER

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Service Number:	727
Enlisted:	14 February 1917
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	49th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Albion, Queensland, 7 August 1889
Home Town:	Bundaberg, Bundaberg, Queensland
Schooling:	Kangaroo Point School, Brisbane
Occupation:	Farmer
Died:	Illness - Pneumonia, No. 41 Stationary Hospital, France, 19 October 1918, aged 29 years
Cemetery:	Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery Plot XV11, Row AA, Grave 11, Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bundaberg War Memorial, Miara, Waterloo & Yandaran Roll of Honor

14 Feb 1917:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 727, 7th Machine Gun Company, Enlisted at Bundaberg, QLD
14 Feb 1917:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private
21 Jun 1917:	Embarked Private, 727, 7th Machine Gun Company, HMAT Suevic, Melbourne
21 Jun 1917:	Involvement Private, 727, 7th Machine Gun Company, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Suevic embarkation_ship_number: A29 public_note: ''
9 Mar 1918:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 52nd Infantry Battalion, From 7th Machine Gun Company
16 May 1918:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 49th Infantry Battalion, From 52nd Battalion
19 Oct 1918:	Involvement Private, 727, 49th Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 727 awm_unit: 49th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1918-10-19

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Son of John Cooper and Agnes Cooper nee Anderson of 'Yandaran Station', Bundaberg, WA

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

Son of John Cooper and Jane Barbara Cooper nee Smith of Bow Street, Rockhampton, QLD

Served his apprenticeship with J. Hallett of Barcaldine and N.M. Peterson of Mount Cornish

Commenced return to Australia on 2 January 1919 aboard HT Aeneas

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal