COLE, Sydney Roland
| Service Numbers: | 1173, 3499 |
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| Enlisted: | 30 October 1914, An original member of H Company 15th Bn. |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 40th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Wynyard, Tasmania, Australia, February 1897 |
| Home Town: | Wynyard, Waratah/Wynyard, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Wynyard State School, Tasmania, Australia |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Died of wounds, France, 13 September 1918 |
| Cemetery: |
St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen Block R, Plot II, Row E, Grave No. 9. |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Deloraine War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 30 Oct 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1173, 15th Infantry Battalion, An original member of H Company 15th Bn. | |
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| 30 Oct 1917: | Involvement Sergeant, 3499, 40th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Aeneas embarkation_ship_number: A60 public_note: '' | |
| 30 Oct 1917: | Embarked Sergeant, 3499, 40th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Aeneas, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Sydney first enlisted as 1173 Sydney Roland Cole in the 15th Battalion during October 1914. He served at the Anzac Landing but was soon evacuated sick to Egypt. He was invalided home to Australia during August 1915 with rheumatism and heart problems. He was discharged medically unfit in Tasmania during December 1915. Prior to enlisting at the outbreak of the war, Sid Cole was assistant clerk in the council office at Wynyard.
He spent several months at Anglesea barracks in Hobart and on the instructional staff at Deloraine army training, as a sergeant major, before he enlisted again as a Sergeant during October 1917.
Sid was mortally wounded in the abdomen on the 24 August 1918. He died of his wounds almost three weeks later in a military hospital in Rouen, France.
His brother, 371 Pte. Walter Rivers Cole 4th Machine Gun Company AIF, had been killed in action in Belgium on the 18 October 1917, aged 23. Another brother, Robert Wilshire Cole, served with the Army Medical Corps and returned to Australia during 1919.
They were the sons of William Henry and Annie Louise Cole who were for many years the much-loved postmaster and postmistress of Wynyard.
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