Claude Arthur COOPER

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Service Number:	2579
Enlisted:	5 August 1915, Enlisted at Brisbane, QLD
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	26th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Nottingham, England, 7 June 1882
Home Town:	Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Photographer
Died:	Queensland, Australia, 1932, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
Memorials:

5 Aug 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2579, 26th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Brisbane, QLD
21 Oct 1915:	Involvement Private, 2579, 26th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Seang Bee embarkation_ship_number: A48 public_note: ''
21 Oct 1915:	Embarked Private, 2579, 26th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Seang Bee, Brisbane
31 Oct 1916:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 2579, 26th Infantry Battalion, Discharged at the 1st Military District as medically unfit due to shell shock

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Son of Arthur William Cooper Smith Cooper and Helen Cooper of Nottingham, England

Next of kin given as his aunt Mrs. Gordon Harvey of Riddinton, Notingham, England

Commenced return to Australia on 8 August 1916 aboard HT Marathon disembarkiing on the 24 September 1916

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

Husband of Edith Cooper nee Smith. Father of Evelyn Smith Cooper

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