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Able Seaman Rex Albert Cooper
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Able Seaman Rex Albert Cooper

Birth
Randwick, Randwick City, New South Wales, Australia
Death
20 Nov 1941 (aged 21)
At Sea
Monument
Plymouth, Plymouth Unitary Authority, Devon, England Add to Map
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He enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy in 1928 and served for twelve years as a Seaman Torpedoman on board HMAS Sydney (II). He was one of the 645 crew who were killed during the HMAS Sydney's engagement with the German auxiliary cruiser HSK Kormoran in the Indian Ocean off the Western Australian coast.
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Service No: 21905
Age: 21
Regiment/Service: Royal Australian Navy, H.M.A.S. Sydney

Son of John Joseph Thomas Cooper and Harriet Ethel Cooper, of Randwick, New South Wales, Australia.
He enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy in 1928 and served for twelve years as a Seaman Torpedoman on board HMAS Sydney (II). He was one of the 645 crew who were killed during the HMAS Sydney's engagement with the German auxiliary cruiser HSK Kormoran in the Indian Ocean off the Western Australian coast.
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Service No: 21905
Age: 21
Regiment/Service: Royal Australian Navy, H.M.A.S. Sydney

Son of John Joseph Thomas Cooper and Harriet Ethel Cooper, of Randwick, New South Wales, Australia.

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