Regimental number | 2909 |
Place of birth | Hobart, Tasmania |
Religion | Church of England |
Occupation | Pastrycook |
Address | 64 Hampden Road, Hobart, Tasmania |
Marital status | Single |
Age at embarkation | 19 |
Height | 5' 7.75" |
Weight | 146 lbs |
Next of kin | Father, C Cox, 64 Hampden Road, Hobart, Tasmania |
Previous military service | Served for 4 years in Senior Cadets; 1 year in Army Medical Corps, Citizen Military Forces, Hobart. |
Enlistment date | |
Place of enlistment | Claremont, Tasmania |
Rank on enlistment | Private |
Unit name | 12th Battalion, 9th Reinforcement |
AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/29/3 |
Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A20 Hororata on |
Rank from Nominal Roll | Private |
Unit from Nominal Roll | 1st Pioneer Battalion |
Fate | Returned to Australia |
Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Parents: Charles and Elizabeth COE. Plaque in Hobart Garden of Remembrance. |
Discharge date | |
Other details |
War service: Egypt, Gallipoli, Western Front Taken on strength, 12th Bn, Mudros, 4 December 1915. Disembarked Alexandria, 6 January 1916 (general Gallipoli evacuation). Taken on strength, 1st Pioneer Bn, Serapeum, 15 March 1916. Embarked Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 16 March 1916; disembarked Marseilles, France, 2 April 1916. Wounded in action, 7 June 1916 (bomb wound, lacerated wounds, head and face; compound fracture of jaw; wounds to both legs and chest), and admitted to 3rd Australian Field Ambulance; transferred to 1st Australian Casualty Clearing Station, 10 June 1916, and then by Ambulance Train to 13th Stationary Hospital, Boulogne, 10 June 1916; to England, 13 June 1916, and admitted same day to Reading War Hospital; transferred to No 2 Auxiliary Hospital, Southall, 18 October 1916; marched into No 2 Command Depot, Weymouth, 1 November 1916. Marched into Pioneer Training Bn, Larkhill, 11 March 1917. Commenced return to Australia from Plymouth on board HT 'Barambah', 8 April 1917; disembarked Melbourne, 9 June 1917, for onward travel to Hobart; discharged (medically unfit: defective vision), Hobart, 14 August 1917. Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal |
Date of death | |
Age at death | 29 |
Place of burial | Cornelian Bay Cemetery, Hobart, Tasmania |
Sources | NAA: B2455, COE Horace |