Gaston Cook

Service number: 1691

Rank: Private

Unit: 1st Light Horse Regiment 11th Reinforcement

Service: Australian Army

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Source: National Archives of Australia

Gaston Cook was born in France and was 30 years and 9 months at enlistment on 1stSeptember 1915. Gaston was a horse breaker and lived at “Bell Bird Estate”, Manly with his wife. Gaston joined the western front on 14th January 1916. On 25th August 1916 he was admitted to hospital with an ulcer. He was invalided back to Australia on 20th November 1916 in part owing to defective vision.

Gaston embarked per the Ayrshire on 4th December 1916 and was discharged on 26th January 1917.