Lance Edward COOK

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COOK, Lance Edward

Service Numbers:	1021, 6346
Enlisted:	11 December 1914
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	10th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Mount Barker, South Australia, Australia, 28 July 1896
Home Town:	Mount Barker, Adelaide Hills, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Fettler
Died:	Preston, Victoria, Australia, 3 February 1932, aged 35 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Mount Barker Cemetery, S.A.
Memorials:	Mount Barker Soldiers' Memorial Hospital Roll of Honor

World War 1 Service

11 Dec 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1021, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1)
22 Dec 1914:	Involvement Private, 1021, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: ''
22 Dec 1914:	Embarked Private, 1021, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), HMAT Ceramic, Melbourne
28 Aug 1916:	Embarked Private, 6346, 10th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Anchises, Adelaide
28 Aug 1916:	Involvement Private, 6346, 10th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Anchises embarkation_ship_number: A68 public_note: ''
11 Nov 1918:	Involvement Private, 1021, 10th Infantry Battalion
Date unknown:	Wounded 6346, 10th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Robert Kearney

Lancelot Edwin Percy Cook was a young man from Mt Barker SA. He was born on 28 July 1896 and lived in Mt Barker until the age of 18 when he put his age up to joind the AIF as part a part of the WW1 fight. He enlisted as 1021 Private Lance Edward Cook and later fought at Gallipoli where in May 1915 he was shot in the right thigh. Suffering with a severe wound to his lege he was evacuated and eventually invalided back to Melbourne on a hospital ship.

On 28 August 1916 6346 Private Lance Edward Cook embarked again this time as a member of the 10th Battalion bound for France.

After arriving in France he suffered a GSW to the scalp and after recoveirn in hospital spent much of his time either sick in hospital or in detention and returned to Australia and was dsicharged on 22 August 1919.

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