COUSINS, Peter Samuel
| Service Number: | 1632 |
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| Enlisted: | 21 February 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 35th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Swansea, New South Wales, Australia, November 1885 |
| Home Town: | Carrington, Great Lakes, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Carrington, New South Wales, Australia, 30 April 1934, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW METHODIST 4-03. 46. |
| Memorials: | Carrington Connolly Park War Memorial Gates, Carrington Football Club HR |
World War 1 Service
| 21 Feb 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1632, 35th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 1 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 1632, 35th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: '' | |
| 1 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 1632, 35th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Sydney | |
| 4 Apr 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 1632, 35th Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD (GSW right thigh, fractured femur) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
89 years ago today, on the Tuesday afternoon of the 1st May 1934, Private Peter Samuel Cousins, 35th Battalion (Reg No-1632), labourer from Little Denison Street, Carrington, New South Wales and 76 Gipps Street, Carrington, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 49. METHODIST 4-03. 46.
Born at Swansea, New South Wales about 1885 to James Peter and Peggy Cousins; husband of Elsie May Cousins nee Carpenter (married 1912, Hamilton, N.S.W., died 13.4.1933, age 49, sleeping here), Peter enlisted on the 21st February at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A24 Benalla on the 1st May 1916.
Wounded in action - 15.10.1917 (SW left arm), 4.4.1918 (GSW thigh & back).
Embarked for England 28.6.1918.
Peter returned home invalided on the 11th February 1919, being discharged medically unfit (GSW right thigh, fractured femur) on the 4th April 1919.
Mr. Cousins’s name has been inscribed on the Carrington Citizens' Memorial Gates, Carrington Municipal District Roll of Honor and the Carrington Football Club Roll of Honor. Name not inscribed on the Carrington Methodist Church Roll of Honour.
I have placed poppies at this WW1 Digger’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Service record states Died after Discharge, 30/4/1934.
Not officially commemorated.
I will be submitting an application to DVA asking for a Commonwealth War Graves Plaque to be placed at the gravesite in remembrance of his sacrifice during The Great War.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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