COHEN, Bernard David
| Service Number: | 3025 |
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| Enlisted: | 8 August 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Staff Quartermaster Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 35th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Sydney, New South Wales Australia , 18 July 1890 |
| Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Salesman |
| Died: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 11 September 1952, aged 62 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Mount Thompson Memorial Gardens & Crematorium, Queensland |
| Memorials: | Sydney The Great Synagogue Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 8 Aug 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3025, 35th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 24 Jan 1917: | Involvement Private, 3025, 35th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Anchises embarkation_ship_number: A68 public_note: '' | |
| 24 Jan 1917: | Embarked Private, 3025, 35th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Anchises, Sydney | |
| 30 Oct 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Staff Quartermaster Sergeant, 3025, 35th Infantry Battalion, per HT Wahehe | |
| 21 Jan 1920: | Discharged AIF WW1, Staff Quartermaster Sergeant, 3025, 35th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Staff Quartermaster Sergeant Bernard David Cohen enlisted in the AIF on 8 August 1916, posted as a Private to Depot Signal Training Coy before embarking in January 1917 with 35th Infantry Battalion from Sydney to Devonport on board HMAT Anchises A68. In June 1917 he was detached for duty with AIF War Chest Club London before rejoining his Battalion as Staff Quartemaster Sergeant and embarking for Australia on 30 October 1919 on board HT Wahehe, and Discharge on 21 January 1920.
Born in 1890 in Sydney NSW, David was the fifth of six children of Maurice (Moses) Abraham Cohen (b1851 in the Ukraine) and Deborah Grouse (b1850 in Poland). Moses travelled to England for his education at Jews' College London, and was a Teacher before travelling to India where he was Headmaster at the Sassoon School in Bombay while completing a Degree at Bombay University. Moses then worked as the personal translator for General Roberts (Commander of the British Forces in Afghanistan during the second Afghan War). Maurice and Deborah married in 1883 at the Central Synagogue in Marylebone, London and in 1887 emigrated to Sydney NSW with their family. Moses was Headmaster of the first Jewish Sunday School in Sydney, Head of the NSW Jewish Board of Education, Editor of the first weekly Jewish newspaper and a lecturer on Hebrew. An international expert in Urdu, he was fluent in, and also taught many other languages.
Bernard worked as a Travelling Salesman/Commercial Traveller and in 1912 in Sydney NSW married Lilias (Lal) Harriet Green (b1888 in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria). Bernard and Lal settled in Melbourne, Victoria where Bernard was a Travelling Salesman/Commercial Traveller and Superintendent before moving to Sydney NSW in the late 1930s. Bernard served with the ACMF during WWII (Warrant Officer I: Service No: N69505). Bernard and Lal settled in Brisbane QLD, where Bernard died in 1952. Lal died in 1980.
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