Ernest Garnet COOPER

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Service Number:	6610
Enlisted:	17 April 1916, Enlisted at Blackboy Hill, WA
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	4th Light Trench Mortar Battery
Born:	Gunnislake, Cornwall, England, July 1889
Home Town:	Kalgoorlie, Kalgoorlie/Boulder, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Miner
Died:	Wooroloo, Western Australia, 1 May 1940, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
Memorials:

17 Apr 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6610, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), Enlisted at Blackboy Hill, WA
13 Oct 1916:	Involvement Private, 6610, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Suffolk embarkation_ship_number: A23 public_note: ''
13 Oct 1916:	Embarked Private, 6610, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), HMAT Suffolk, Fremantle
19 May 1917:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 4th Light Trench Mortar Battery, From 16th Battalion
4 Apr 1918:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 6610, 4th Light Trench Mortar Battery, Discharged at the 5th Military District as medically unfit due to Epilepsy

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Son of John Cooper and Fanny Cooper nee Allen of Woodvilla', Deleware Road, Gunnislake, Cornwall, England.

Commenced return to Australia on 1 December 1918 aboard HT Balmoral Castle

Medal: British War Medal, Victory Medal