Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War I (1914-1918)

Date of Enlistment

05/11/1915

Place of Enlistment

Majura ACT

Gender

Male

Other Name(s)

Sometimes referred to as 'Harman' or 'Tom'.

Place of Birth

Majura ACT

Address (at enlistment)

Majura via Queanbeyan ACT

Occupation

Labourer

Next of Kin

Son of Joseph Cooper (father) of Majura via Queanbeyan NSW

Burial Place

France 52 Abbeville Communal Cemetery Extension

Service Number

5351

Final Rank

Private

Final Unit

53 Battalion AIF

Died of wounds on 29 May 1917 at Abbeville, France, aged 26 years

AWM Roll of Honour Memorial Panel 157, Canberra ACT
Large stone tablet on outside of northern wall of St. John's Church, Reid ACT
Queanbeyan District Methodist Church Honor Roll
World War 1 Memorial, corner of Lowe St and Farrer Place, Queanbeyan NSW
Queanbeyan RSL Wall of Remembrance, Crawford St, Queanbeyan NSW
Majura Honour Roll - refer Queanbeyan Age 21 May 1918

Thomas Harman Cooper was born in Majura in 1890 and enlisted in Goulburn on 5 November 1915. He served with the 53rd Battalion in France from July 1916 near Armentierres and at Flers but died at hospital in Abbeville on 29 May 1917 (aged 26 years) from shell wounds received in action on 25 May 1917 during the Second Battle of Bullecourt. He was the brother of Arthur Cooper.

AWM Roll of Honour Database
AWM Roll of Honour Circular
First World War Unit Embarkation Rolls
Rex Cross, 'Bygone Queanbeyan', 1980
National Library of Australia : Country Women's Association of NSW (Canberra Branch) History, 1959 (manuscript call no. NLA MS 734)
Our Queanbeyan 'Boys' No.4, Howard & Shearsby, Yass (postcard)
Queanbeyan Age - 5 November 1915, 9 November 1915, 28 March 1916, 15 June 1917, 22 June 1917, 21 May 1918
Photograph(s): AWM Photograph P03647.001
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)