Percy Goude COOKE MM+Bar

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Service Numbers:	2568, Q200299
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

28 May 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2568, 15th Infantry Battalion, Brisbane, Queensland
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

17 Apr 1942:	Enlisted Private, Q200299, Volunteer Defence Corps (SA), Brisbane, Queensland
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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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

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.