William Cowie (Bill) COOPER

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Service Number:	197
Enlisted:	17 August 1914, Enlisted at Sydney, NSW
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	4th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Skirfolds, Ordiquhill, Banff, Scotland, 22 June 1893
Home Town:	Mosman, Municipality of Mosman, New South Wales
Schooling:	Ordiquhill, Scotland
Occupation:	Farm Labourer
Died:	Hypostatic pneumonia, Wingcarribee Committee Hospital, Moss Vale, New South Wales, Australia, 20 July 1982, aged 89 years
Cemetery:	Bowral General Cemetery, NSW G. Bevan of Bowral, NSW officiated Commemorated with a plaque in the NSW Garden of Remembrance
Memorials:

17 Aug 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 197, 4th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Sydney, NSW
20 Oct 1914:	Involvement Private, 197, 4th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: ''
20 Oct 1914:	Embarked Private, 197, 4th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Sydney
23 May 1915:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 197, 4th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, Fractured skull. Invalided to England on 21 June 1915
14 Mar 1916:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 197, 4th Infantry Battalion, Discharged at the 2nd Military District

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Son of Mary Cooper of Knowles, Deskford, Banffshire, Scotland

Husband of Ivy Ethel Cooper nee Virtue of Penrose Road, Bundanoon, NSW. William and Ivy married in Hurstville, NSW during 1922c