COOK, Birt Thomas
Service Number: | SX105 |
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Enlisted: | 20 October 1939 |
Last Rank: | Staff Sergeant |
Last Unit: | 2nd/3rd Field Company / Squadron RAE |
Born: | Adelaide, SA, 15 May 1911 |
Home Town: | Prospect (SA), Prospect, South Australia |
Schooling: | Thebarton School |
Occupation: | Unemployed |
Died: | 23 September 1992, aged 81 years, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
Cemetery: |
Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia Sutton Court, Wall 4, Niche B022 |
Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
20 Oct 1939: | Involvement SX105 | |
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20 Oct 1939: | Enlisted Keswick, SA | |
20 Oct 1939: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Staff Sergeant, SX105 | |
5 Apr 1945: | Discharged | |
5 Apr 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Staff Sergeant, SX105, 2nd/3rd Field Company / Squadron RAE |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Mr and Mrs E.W. COOK of 46 Gladstone Road, Mile End, SA. Birt was educated at the Thebarton School and followed outdoor sports and played football in suburbs and hills district and then for Angaston in the 1939 season. Residing at 85 Sussex Street Lower North Adelaide, he worked at I.C.I. for several years in Dry Creek and Angaston and enlisted in October 1939. He was the first employee to enlist from I.C.I. and left Australia in May 1940 for England and after 6 months went to the Middle East and saw service in Tobruk.