Edmund Thomas COOPER

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Service Numbers:	1789, 1789B
Enlisted:	19 April 1915, Enlisted at Liverpool, NSW
Last Rank:	Lance Corporal
Last Unit:	1st Machine Gun Battalion
Born:	Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia, 1892
Home Town:	Surry Hills, City of Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Packer
Memorials:

19 Apr 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1789, 19th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Liverpool, NSW
19 Jun 1915:	Involvement Private, 1789, 19th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Kanowna embarkation_ship_number: A61 public_note: ''
19 Jun 1915:	Embarked Private, 1789, 19th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Kanowna, Sydney
3 Aug 1916:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 1789, 19th Infantry Battalion, Wound to the right hip. On 16 August 1916 he was transferred from Boulogne to England aboard HS Dieppe
25 Oct 1917:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, Machine Gun Companies and Battalions, From 19th Battalion
5 Oct 1918:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 1st Machine Gun Battalion
6 Oct 1918:	Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 1st Machine Gun Battalion
9 Jul 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 1789B, 1st Machine Gun Battalion , Discharged at the 2nd Military District

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Son of Dora Cooper of Bourke Street, Surry Hillis, NSW

Commenced return to Australia on 21 March 1919 aboard HT Kildonian Castle disembarking on 9 May 1919

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

During 1921c Edward married Kathleen D. Moroney in Sydney, NSW