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COOKE, Joseph Henry
Personal Details
Service Numbers: | Not yet discovered |
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Enlisted: | 7 September 1914 |
Last Rank: | Second Lieutenant |
Last Unit: | 11th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Dinapore, India, 26 October 1882 |
Home Town: | Wickepin, Wickepin, Western Australia |
Schooling: | Muree Memorial School, India |
Occupation: | Accountant |
Died: | Killed In Action, Gallipoli,, 2 May 1915, aged 32 years |
Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Lone Pine Memorial - Panel 33 |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing, Wickepin District Roll of Honor, Wickepin District Roll of Honour WWI, Wickepin Fallen Soldiers Memorial |
Service History
World War 1 Service
7 Sep 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 11th Infantry Battalion | |
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2 May 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, ANZAC / Gallipoli |
Personal Stories
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His brother
8455 Company Serjeant Major Albert Edward Cooke 1st Bn Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry killed in action 4 June 1915 age 24. Son of Alfred E. and Elizabeth Cooke, of 8, Whitfield St., Gloucester.
Grave/Memorial Reference: A. 1. FIRST D.C.L.I. CEMETERY, THE BLUFF.