Année de naissance: 1894

Lieu de naissance: Seymour, Tasmania, Australia

Profession: Ouvrier

Pays: Australia

Force armée: Australian Imperial Force

Rang: Private

Numéro de service: 2819

Incorporation date: 19/08/1915

Incorporation nom de lieu: Claremont, Tasmania, Australia

Unités:  —  Australian Infantry, 12th Bn.  (Dernière unité connue)

Date de décès: 06/10/1917

Lieu de décès: Westhoek, Zonnebeke, Belgique

Cause du décès: Killed in action (K.I.A.)

Âge: 23

British War Medal Médaille

Victory Medal Médaille

Edmund James Cooper was a private of the Australian Infantry 12th Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 1st Division. On the evening of 3 October 1917, the 12th Battalion left their bivouacs round Chateau Regard and went forward to relieve the 4th Battalion on Westhoek and Anzac Ridges. The 4th Battalion moved into the front line trenches, as the attack on Broodseinde was to take place next day. The valley between Westhoek and Anzac Ridges was heavily barraged the following days. On the night of 5-6 October, the 12th Battalion moved on their turn to Broodseinde Ridge to relieve the 1st and 4th Battalion. It was particularly dark and rainy that night. The duckboard track leading to the front line was badly damaged by shell fire. Men, heavily laden with guns and ammunition, were to become hopelessly bogged in the mud. Also was the battalion heavily shelled by enemy artillery. That night, Private Edmund James Cooper was probably killed by shell fire on his way to the front line.

12th Australian Infantry, (Australian War Memorial, Campbell (AWM), AWM4 23/29/32). https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1338583 Sources utilisées

First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920 (National Archives of Australia, Canberra (NAA), B2455, COOPER E J). https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/SearchScreens/NameSearch.aspx Sources utilisées

Newton L.M., The story of the twelfth: A record of the 12th battalion A.I.F. during the Great War of 1914-1918 (Hobart, J. Walch & Sons Pty. Ltd. 1925), p. 158-9. Sources utilisées

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/480799

Namenlijst (In Flanders Fields Museum) https://namenlijst.org/publicsearch/#/person/_id=208cee8a-42c6-4f2d-9333-c250d68192cd

Lives of the First World War (Imperial War Museum) https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/7397108

The AIF Project (UNSW Canberra) https://www.aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=61859