COOPER, Ebba
| Service Number: | 1251 |
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| Enlisted: | 5 August 1915, An original of D Company |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 30th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Hay, New South Wales, Australia, 1892 |
| Home Town: | Hay, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Lachlan Gate School, Hay, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Station hand |
| Died: | Died of wounds, France, 5 August 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
Boulogne Eastern Cemetery Plot V111, Row B, Grave 122, |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 5 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1251, 30th Infantry Battalion, An original of D Company | |
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| 9 Nov 1915: | Involvement Private, 1251, 30th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Beltana embarkation_ship_number: A72 public_note: '' | |
| 9 Nov 1915: | Embarked Private, 1251, 30th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Beltana, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
His full name from family records was Harry Ebenezer Cooper but he was known around Hay NSW as Ebba or Eb Cooper. He was severely wounded at Fromelles on 20 July 1916, and from Red Cross records it appears he may have laid out in No Man's Land for at least a day or two before he brought back to his lines by some brave stretcher bearers.
He wasn't admitted to the 13th General Hospital at Boulogne on the French coast until 5 days later on the 25 July 1916. He was suffering from a gun shot wound to the left side of his chest, penetrating his lungs. He was doing well until he had a coughing fit and died on the 5 August 1916.
Riverine Grazier (Hay, NSW) 10 October 1916.
'Mr J. H. Cooper, of Beabula, Hay, whose son, Private Eb Cooper, recently died from wounds in France, has received the following letter from Sister E. G. Kilburn, 13 General Hospital, France:— Dear Mr Cooper, your son, Private E. Cooper, No. 1251, was admitted to my ward with a penetrating wound of the chest, on July 25, and I was hoping in another week or so to get him well enough to travel to England; and am grieved to say he had a bad attack of coughing yesterday evening (August 5) at 7.15, which brought on hemorrhage, and he passed away quite suddenly. I felt so sad for him, and he had been so happy and comfortable these last few days; he used to have his bed carried out for an hour each day into the garden in the sun. You may be sure we did all we possibly could for him, and I was so grieved to think we could we could not get him home to you. ' Another nurse in the same hospital, Sister Margaret Thomas, who helped to nurse Private Cooper, also wrote expressing her sympathy. In her letter she states that the lad was referred to by the doctor as 'that plucky Australian,' and he was a good example to those in the hospital.'
His brother, 760 Pte. John Ward Cooper 4th Battalion AIF, died of pneumonia in France on 31 March 1917.
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