Joseph Samuel COOPER

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Service Number:	2121
Enlisted:	13 July 1915, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	23rd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Collingwood, Victoria, Australia, 1894
Home Town:	Fitzroy, Yarra, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Horsebreaker
Died:	Heidleberg, Victoria, Australia, 1 June 1967, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Fawkner Memorial Park Cemetery, Victoria Commemorated with a plaque in the Victoria Garden of Remembrance
Memorials:

13 Jul 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2121, 23rd Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria
27 Sep 1915:	Involvement Private, 2121, 23rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: ''
27 Sep 1915:	Embarked Private, 2121, 23rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Melbourne
23 Sep 1917:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 2121, 23rd Infantry Battalion, Wound to the lower jaw
23 Feb 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 2121, 23rd Infantry Battalion, Discharged at the 3rd Military District as medically unfit due to wounding of the lower jaw

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Son of Samuel Cooper and Alice Rosina Cooper nee Utting of Rose Street, Fitzroy, Victoria

Commenced return to Australia on 8 November 1918 aboard HT Gaika disembarking on the 29 December 1918

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

During 1919c Joseph married Agnes Mary Gillies in Victoria