COOKE, Percy Goude
Service Numbers: | 2568, Q200299 |
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Enlisted: | 28 May 1915, Brisbane, Queensland |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 1st (QLD) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) |
Born: | Mackay, Queensland, 17 April 1884 |
Home Town: | Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Surveyor's Assistant |
Died: | Natural causes, Queensland, Australia, 28 October 1966, aged 82 years |
Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
28 May 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2568, 15th Infantry Battalion, Brisbane, Queensland | |
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16 Aug 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 2568, 15th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Kyarra embarkation_ship_number: A55 public_note: '' | |
16 Aug 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 2568, 15th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Kyarra, Brisbane | |
12 Aug 1916: | Imprisoned Battle for Pozières | |
12 Aug 1916: | Wounded Battle for Pozières , Shell wound (left leg/hip, right arm) | |
17 Aug 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 2568, 15th Infantry Battalion |
World War 2 Service
17 Apr 1942: | Enlisted Private, Q200299, Volunteer Defence Corps (SA), Brisbane, Queensland | |
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17 Apr 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q200299 | |
18 Apr 1942: | Involvement Private, Q200299, Volunteer Defence Corps (SA), Homeland Defence - Militia and non deployed forces, Page missing from Enlistment Register | |
21 Oct 1945: | Discharged Private, Q200299, 1st (QLD) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
Percy Goude COOKE was born in Mackay, Queensland on 17th April, 1884
His parents were William Daniel COOKE & Ellen Elizabeth PEARCE
He married Agnes Mary WAKEFIELD on 13th April, 1922 in St James Church, Toowoomba, Queensland
Biography
Pte. Cooke won the Military Medal for Bravery at Pozierers, and was taken prisoner there on 12 Aug 1916 - He escaped to Holland on 04 Apr 1918 with 3398 Pte. George Henry Reed (/explore/people/268546) and a British soldier of the Scots Guard named Osborne (probably 5860 Pte. John Osborne, 1st Battalion Scots Guards (discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk)). He was later awarded a Bar to his Military Medal for the daring escape.
Percy Cooke and his Australian co-escapee, George Reed, died within 4 months of each other in 1966.