10th Light Trench Mortar Battery
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Ernest George Edmund Cooper (SN 2406) born in Ballarat, was a 25 year old hammer press driver when he enlisted at Ballarat on September 25th1916. He embarked aboard the Port Lincoln on October 20th, assigned to the 39th Infantry Battalion. He reached France in March 1917 then in June he was transferred to the 10th Light Trench Mortar Battery. In August 1918 he was wounded in action when he sustained a severe gunshot wound to his leg and was evacuated to England. For him the war was over, and he returned to Australia aboard the Zealandia, disembarked at Melbourne on June 28th1919 and was discharged on August 7th.
