LAING B.C.

Given Names:  Alexander Bruce Cooper

Service Number:  9314

Unit:  Field Artillery Brigade 4, 1st reinforcements                                                             

Rank:  Gunner 

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Age:  25 Yrs  4 Mths

Occupation:  Accountant                                                                                                

Marital Status:  Single

Religion:  Presbyterian

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION           

Height:  5 Ft  8 In                     

Weight:  140 Lbs

Chest:  33-35 In

Hair:  Light Brown

Eyes:  Brown

Complexion:  Ruddy

ENLISTMENT

Date Enlisted:  19/7/1915

Place:  Melbourne

Next of Kin:  FATHER  Alexander Adamson Laing

Royal Bank, Melbourne, Victoria                                                                                       

Embarkation Date:  18/11/1915

Port:  Melbourne                                       

Ship:  HMAT Wiltshire A18

END OF WAR 

Status:  Returned to Australia

Ship:  Port Macquarie                                

Embarked:  28/3/1919                               

Disembarked: 

Unit:  2nd Division Artillery                                                                                                            

Rank:  Lieutenant

Discharge Date:  11/7/1919                       

Place: 

MEDALS AND AWARDS

14/15 Star:  2015

British War Medal:  27689

Victory Medal:  27556

Other:   

BIRTH

Date or Year:  1890

Place:  South Yarra, Victoria                    

Father:  Alexander Adamson LAING         

Mother:  Mary Cooper BRUCE

MARRIAGE

Year:  1919     

Place:             

Spouse: Verna Graeme WRIGHT

DEATH

Date or Year: 21/1/1958                          

Place: Heidelberg, Victoria                      

Burial:  Springvale, Victoria

SERVICE RECORD HIGHLIGHTS

Wounded in action 2/4/1917; gun shot wound, buttock & thigh

MEMORIALS

Kew War Memorial

Kew Presbyterian Church

WORLD WAR 2 SERVICE

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COMMENTS

Lived at 33 Princess Street, Kew in 1919