Arthur Edwin COOPER

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Service Number:	184
Enlisted:	26 October 1914, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria
Last Rank:	Warrant Officer
Last Unit:	Army Pay Corps (AIF)
Born:	Bairnsdale, Victoria, Australia, 22 April 1889
Home Town:	Kew, Boroondara, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Telegraphist
Died:	Heidleberg, Victoria, Australia, 1 November 1952, aged 63 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne Cremation service held on 3 November 1952. Ashes interred in Tristania area, Wall AA, Niche 124 and held in perpetuity for all time
Memorials:	Hawthorn Postmaster General's Department Victoria 1, Kew War Memorial

26 Oct 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 184, 1st Signal Company Engineers, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria
22 Dec 1914:	Involvement Sapper, 184, 1st Signal Company Engineers, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Borda embarkation_ship_number: A30 public_note: ''
22 Dec 1914:	Embarked Sapper, 184, 1st Signal Company Engineers, HMAT Borda, Melbourne
11 Jul 1915:	Wounded AIF WW1, Sapper, 184, 1st Signal Company Engineers, ANZAC / Gallipoli, Shrapnel wound to the thigh
10 Aug 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Sapper, Army Pay Corps (AIF), Temporarily attached
1 Mar 1918:	Promoted AIF WW1, Sergeant, Army Pay Corps (AIF), In England
11 Nov 1918:	Promoted AIF WW1, Warrant Officer, Army Pay Corps (AIF), In London, England
29 Jan 1921:	Discharged AIF WW1, Warrant Officer, 184, Army Pay Corps (AIF), Discharged at the 3rd Military District

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Son of John Henderson Cooper and Annie Cooper nee Phillips of Wellington Street, South Kew, Victoria formerly of Barinsdale, Victoria

Commenced return to Australia on 1 November 1919 aboard HT Nestor disembarking on 15 December 1919

Awarded Meritorious Service Medal: London Gazette on
22 February 1919, page 2702, position 7

Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 17 June 1919, page 1018, position 13

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