COOKE, Reginald Crowther
| Service Number: | 14963 |
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| Enlisted: | 21 February 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | 7th Field Company Engineers |
| Born: | Waratah, New South Wales, Australia, 10 October 1887 |
| Home Town: | Newcastle, Hunter Region, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Building contractor |
| Died: | Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, 14 May 1922, aged 34 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 1-53. 41. |
| Memorials: | Men of Colo Vale District Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 21 Feb 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Driver, 14963, Field Company Engineers | |
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| 30 Sep 1916: | Involvement Driver, 14963, Field Company Engineers, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Aeneas embarkation_ship_number: A60 public_note: '' | |
| 30 Sep 1916: | Embarked Driver, 14963, Field Company Engineers, HMAT Aeneas, Sydney | |
| 25 Aug 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Sapper, 14963, 7th Field Company Engineers, 2nd MD |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
101 years ago today, on the Tuesday afternoon of the 16th May 1922, Driver or Sapper Reginald Crowther (Crouther) Cooke, 7th Field Company Australian Engineers (Reg No-14963), building contractor (commission agent), from the Newmarket Hotel, Hunter Street, Newcastle, New South Wales, was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 34. ANGLICAN 1-53. 41. Not married.
Born at Waratah, New South Wales on the 10th October 1887 to James Elias and Sarah Ann Cooke of Alpine, New South Wales, Reg enlisted on the 21st February 1916 with the Field Company Engineers Reinforcements at Sydney, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A60 Aeneas on the 30th September 1916.
Admitted to hospital 3.1.1918 (defective vision), 21.2.1918 (defective vision), 28.2.1918 (defective vision), 4.6.1918 (gout).
Wounded in action - 18.1.1918 (gassed),? 7.1918 (gassed, slight).
Granted leave to England from the 14.8.1918 to the 2.9.1918.
Reg was invalided home on the 17th April 1919, being discharged medically unfit on the 25th August 1919.
Nothing located on Trove regarding enlistment, wounds, returning or welcome home, etc.
Mr. Cooke’s name has been inscribed on the Men of Colo Vale District Roll of Honour and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
I have placed poppies at Reg’s memorialised gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Not officially commemorated.
Older brother Arthur Ernest (born Ashfield, New South Wales, 24.4.1878, farm labourer from 9 Laman Street, Cooks Hill, New South Wales, enlisted 30.3.1916, 34th Battalion, Reg No-2050, KIA 12.10.1917, 1st Battle of Passchendaele, age 39) memorialised same location.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
Biography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
101 years ago today, on the Tuesday afternoon of the 16th May 1922, Driver or Sapper Reginald Crowther (Crouther) Cooke, 7th Field Company Australian Engineers (Reg No-14963), building contractor (commission agent), from the Newmarket Hotel, Hunter Street, Newcastle, New South Wales, was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 34. ANGLICAN 1-53. 41. Not married.
Born at Waratah, New South Wales on the 10th October 1887 to James Elias and Sarah Ann Cooke of Alpine, New South Wales, Reg enlisted on the 21st February 1916 with the Field Company Engineers Reinforcements at Sydney, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A60 Aeneas on the 30th September 1916.
Admitted to hospital 3.1.1918 (defective vision), 21.2.1918 (defective vision), 28.2.1918 (defective vision), 4.6.1918 (gout).
Wounded in action - 18.1.1918 (gassed),? 7.1918 (gassed, slight).
Granted leave to England from the 14.8.1918 to the 2.9.1918.
Reg was invalided home on the 17th April 1919, being discharged medically unfit on the 25th August 1919.
Nothing located on Trove regarding enlistment, wounds, returning or welcome home, etc.
Mr. Cooke’s name has been inscribed on the Men of Colo Vale District Roll of Honour and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
I have placed poppies at Reg’s memorialised gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Not officially commemorated.
Older brother Arthur Ernest (born Ashfield, New South Wales, 24.4.1878, farm labourer from 9 Laman Street, Cooks Hill, New South Wales, enlisted 30.3.1916, 34th Battalion, Reg No-2050, KIA 12.10.1917, 1st Battle of Passchendaele, age 39) memorialised same location.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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