Claude Francis COOPER

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Service Numbers:	388, R5352
Enlisted:	14 October 1914, Enlisted at Guilford, WA. Following re-attestiing due his papers being lost he was allotted to the 5th Battalion with service number R5352
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	5th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Fremantle, Western Australia, 1895
Home Town:	Fremantle, Fremantle, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Grocer
Died:	Due to war service, Randwick, New South Wales, Australia, 13 August 1930
Cemetery:	Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park, NSW Anglican area FM, Row B, Grave 1015
Memorials:

14 Oct 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 388, 10th Light Horse Regiment, Enlisted at Guilford, WA. Following re-attestiing due his papers being lost he was allotted to the 5th Battalion with service number R5352
17 Feb 1915:	Involvement Private, 388, 10th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Surada embarkation_ship_number: A52 public_note: ''
17 Feb 1915:	Embarked Private, 388, 10th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Surada, Fremantle
23 Apr 1917:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, R5352, 5th Infantry Battalion, Shrapnel wounds to the right buttock
13 Aug 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, R5352, 5th Infantry Battalion, Discharged at the 5th Military District

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Son of Thomas Robert Cooper and Elizabeth Anne Burnside formerly Cooper nee Annear of Main Street, Beenup, WA

Commenced return to Austalia on 12 May 1919 aboard HT Soudan disembarking on 21 June 1919

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal