22nd Battalion
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Frank Oliver Cooke (SN 2032) born in Melbourne, was a 30 year old dairyman when he enlisted in Ballarat on July 16th 1915. Assigned to the 22nd Infantry Battalion he embarked aboard the Anchises on August 26th. He moved to France in April 1917 and a month later he was wounded in action, suffering a gunshot wound to his arm which required his evacuation to hospital in England. While in England he was assessed as unfit for further active service and he was returned to Australia on the Persic, disembarking at Melbourne on February 12th 1918. He was discharged on March 14th as ‘medically unfit – chronic rheumatism’.
