Soldier profiles

Name : COOTE, WILLIAM CHARLES
Service Number : NX87395
Date of Birth : 16/10/1909
Place of Birth : COOKS HILL, NSW
Known as :
Occupation on Enlistment : IRONWORKER
Date of Enlistment : 04/02/1942
Locality on Enlistment : COOKS HILL, NSW
Place of Enlistment : PADDINGTON, NSW
Next of Kin : COOTE, MIRIAN
Rank (at time of discharge / death) : PRIVATE
Service : ARMY
Final Posting : 14 AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY TRAINING BATTALION
Position / Platoon / Company (as 2/2 Pioneer) (date / details) :
Unit Transfers / Promotions (date / details) :
Theatres of War : NEW GUINEA
Actions :
Wounded (date / details) :
Discharged : 03/11/1944
Date Died : N/A
Community Roll of Honour : N/A
Buried Location / Memorial (P.O.W., D.O.W., K.I.A.) : N/A
K.I.A. (date / details) : N/A
D.O.W. (date / details) : N/A
M.I.A. (date / details) : N/A
P.O.W. (location/s) : NO
Died P.O.W. (date / details) : N/A
P.O.W. Camps (details) : N/A
Recovered P.O.W. (location/s) : N/A
Honours and Gallantry : None for display
Applicable Australian War Memorial circulars : NO
References found (entries & photos) : National Archives of Australia (Barcode 4626439 [DIGITISED]), WW2 Nominal Roll

Background : Husband of Mirian Coote.

Service & personal summary At enlistment : married. No previous military experience. At discharge : height 5 feet 7.5 inches, blue eyes, fair complexion, fair hair. Marks / scars : transverse scar left forearm. Full time war service : A.I.F. 04/02/1942 to 03/11/1944 which included 1004 days active service (728 days within Australia & 207 days overseas). Operational service : New Guinea area (embarked from Australia 25/07/1943, disembarked in Australia 16/02/1944). War badge no. A54423. Discharge certificate no. 55111.

Service record
04/02/1942 Marched into General Details Depot Sydney, New South Wales.
13/02/1942 Marched out to 103 Australian Convalescent Depot.
13/02/1942 Admitted to 103 Australian Convalescent Depot.
16/02/1942 Evacuated from 103 Australian Convalescent Depot to Elele? Hospital Sydney, New South Wales.
16/02/1942 Admitted to Elele? Hospital with XX?.
24/02/1942 Discharged to unit.
24/02/1942 XX? ex Elele? Hospital.
20/04/1942 XX? fit with XX? right leg XX?.
24/04/1942 Marched out to General Details Depot Sydney, New South Wales from 103 Australian Convalescent Depot.
24/04/1942 Marched into General Details Depot Sydney, New South Wales.
24/04/1942 Taken on strength 14 Infantry Training Battalion Bathurst, New South Wales ex General Details Depot Sydney, New South Wales.
25/08/1942 Transferred from 14 Infantry Training Battalion Bathurst, New South Wales to 2/2 Pioneer Battalion.
27/08/1942 Taken on strength 2/2 Pioneer Battalion ex 14 Australian Infantry Training Battalion 2 Military District (New South Wales).
29/11/1942 Graded GIII Driver Mechanic 5 Military District (Western Australia).
23/01/1943 Entrained for 3 Military District (Victoria) from 5 Military District (Western Australia).
26/03/1943 Entrained for 1 Military District (Queensland) from 3 Military District (Victoria).
19/04/1943 Evacuated to 2 Casualty Clearing Station 1 Military District (Queensland) with diarrhea and transferred to X list.
24/04/1943 Discharged and marched out to General Details Depot 1 Military District (Queensland).
04/05/1943 Marched into 2/2 Pioneer Battalion ex 2/4 Australian General Hospital.
25/07/1943 Embarked Townsville, Queensland on H.M.T. Duntroon.
28/07/1943 Disembarked Port Moresby, New Guinea.
24/12/1943 Evacuated to 2/4 Field Ambulance Main Dressing Station with malaria (benign tertian).
29/12/1943 Evacuated from 2/4 Field Ambulance Main Dressing Station to III Casualty Clearing Station and transferred to X list.
05/01/1944 Discharged III Casualty Clearing Station to unit.
06/01/1944 Taken on strength 2/2 Pioneer Battalion from III Australian Casualty Clearing Station.
06/02/1944 Transferred from 2/2 Pioneer Battalion to 2/4 Australian Field Regiment.
07/02/1944 Taken on strength from 2/2 Pioneer Battalion.
12/02/1944 Embarked Port Moresby, New Guinea on Oryaba?.
16/02/1944 Disembarked Brisbane, Queensland.
17/05/1944 Evacuated to 2/4 Australian General Hospital with arthritis and transferred to X list.
08/06/1944 Evacuated from 2/4 Australian General Hospital to 102 Australian General Hospital, Queensland.
25/07/1944 Evacuated from 102 Australian General Hospital to 2/9 Australian General Hospital, New South Wales with arthritis.
05/09/1944 Discharged 2/9 Australian General Hospital to New South Wales Lines of Communication area General Details Depot.
06/03/1944 Evacuated to Chinchilla Non Military Hospital with lacerations tongue and chin ex leave.
08/03/1944 Discharged from Chinchilla Non Military Hospital to leave.
08/03/1944 Rejoined from X list - Chinchilla Non Military Hospital and resumed leave.
19/09/1944 Medical classification assessed as D.
19/09/1944 Transferred to New South Wales Lines of Communication area General Details Depot for discharge.
03/11/1944 Discharged being medically unfit for further military service.