COOPER, Walter Howard
| Service Number: | 387 |
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| Enlisted: | 18 July 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 30th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Merewether, New South Wales, Australia, 23 July 1891 |
| Home Town: | Merewether, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Merewether, New South Wales, Australia, 18 August 1940, aged 49 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW Anglican 1-12. 120 |
| Memorials: | Merewether Memorial Gates |
World War 1 Service
| 18 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 387, 30th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 9 Nov 1915: | Embarked Private, 387, 30th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Beltana, Sydney | |
| 9 Nov 1915: | Involvement Private, 387, 30th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Beltana embarkation_ship_number: A72 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Jul 1916: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 387, 30th Infantry Battalion, Fromelles (Fleurbaix), SW to neck | |
| 27 Mar 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 387, 30th Infantry Battalion, SW to face and right chest | |
| 29 Sep 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 387, 30th Infantry Battalion, Breaching the Hindenburg Line - Cambrai / St Quentin Canal, GSW right shoulder | |
| 19 Jan 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 387, 30th Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served and suffered during The Great War, now resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
80 years ago today, on the Monday afternoon of the 19th August 1940, Private Walter Howard Cooper, 30th Battalion, labourer from the corner of Ridge and Mitchell Streets, Merewether, New South Wales, was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 49. ANGLICAN 1-12. 120.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article139378085 - funeral notice states service.
Born at Merewether, New South Wales on the 23rd July 1891 to George and Margaret Cooper (died 1939, sleeping here, ANGLICAN 1-12. 118, name not inscribed on headstone); younger brother Edwin Stanley (born 1899, died 1919, age 20) resting together here with Walter, Mr Cooper enlisted July 1915 at Liverpool, N.S.W.
Wounded in action - 20.7.1916 (GSW neck, slight, Battle of Fromelles - http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article133889120, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article133877492), 27.3.1917 (SW face, right chest - http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article134865507), 29.9.1918 (GSW right shoulder - http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article137492777),
Walter returned home May 1919.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article139438238
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article139435302
Walter’s name has been inscribed on the Merewether (Mitchell Park) Memorial Gates, Newcastle South Public School Roll of Honour (photo, unveiled on the 13th December 1918) and the Newcastle Free Gardeners'-Pansy Lodge No. 21 G.U.O.O.F. Roll of Honour.
Walter’s name has not been inscribed on the family headstone, so February 2016 I placed a cross adorned with poppies on the gravesite, taken a photo of the grave and uploaded the photo onto the Northern Cemetery website as a permanent record of his service.
http://sandgate.northerncemeteries.com.au/index.php/war-heroes/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=103&aso=exact&s_f=id&data_search=23763#grave-photo-1
Many thanks to Walter's Great Nephew Jeff Cooper for the notification and profile photo of Mr Cooper.
I will be submitting an application to DVA asking for official commemoration at Walter’s gravesite.
Lest We Forget.
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