James Groom COOPER

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Service Number:	5870
Enlisted:	12 July 1916, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria
Last Rank:	Sapper
Last Unit:	3rd Tunnelling Company (inc. 6th Tunnelling Company)
Born:	Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia, 1881
Home Town:	Oakleigh, Monash, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Carpenter
Died:	Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia, 18 December 1957, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne Cremation service held on 18 December 1957. Ashes interred in the Boronia area, Wall C, Niche 334
Memorials:

12 Jul 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 5870, Tunnelling Companies, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria
25 Oct 1916:	Involvement Sapper, 5870, Tunnelling Companies, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: ''
25 Oct 1916:	Embarked Sapper, 5870, Tunnelling Companies, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne
6 Feb 1917:	Transferred AIF WW1, Sapper, 3rd Tunnelling Company (inc. 6th Tunnelling Company), From the Tunnelling Companies
1 Sep 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Sapper, 3rd Tunnelling Company (inc. 6th Tunnelling Company), Discharged at the 3rd Military District as medically unfit due to bronchitis

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Enlisted under alias James Cowper. In October 1938 he signed as statutory declaration stating that his correct name was James Groom Cooper

Birth registered as James Groom Cooper:- https://my.rio.bdm.vic.gov.au/ recod number 871

Son of Alfred Groom Cooper and Chirstina Cooper nee Carrick of Brunswick, Victoria

Husbnd of Annie Eleanor of John Street, Oakleigh, Victoria

Commenced return to Australia on 6 November 1918 aboard HT Marathon disembarking on 1 January 1919

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal