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PLAQUE NO 23:                                            Bullecourt

            Lt W.E. (William) Cook (1900-02)


            28th Battalion
            Killed in Action: Bullecourt
            27 March 1917. Age 25.
                                                                   PLAQUE NO 25:
            Lieutenant William Cook attended Hale School from 1900 to
            1902. He joined the Western Australian 28th Battalion early in
            1916.                                                 Lt John A. Shadwick

            He survived the first year or so in France until he went into the   (1900-01)
            line in Bullecourt, the location where more Australians were
            killed than in any other battle in our history.
                                                                  48th Battalion
            Dedicated by Hale School.                             Killed in Action: Bullecourt
            Placed by the then President of the Hale Old Boys'    11 April 1917. Age 25
            Association, Mr Mark Rogers (1970-75), accompanied by his
            son Alexander (1994-03).                              Lieutenant John Shadwick was a staff member at
                                                                  Hale School before the outbreak of the Great War. He
            PLAQUE NO 24:                                         subsequently joined the 48th Battalion and was killed
                                                                  in action at Bullecourt.
            Pte Frederick S. Miller (1900-02)                     Dedicated by Hale School

                                                                  Placed by Mr Brian Heibner, then President of the
                                                                  Hale School Staff Common Room Association.
            51st Battalion
            Killed in Action: Bullecourt
            2 April 1917. Age 32.

            Private Fred Miller was from Cottelsoe. After leaving school
            he worked on station properties in the north-west of the state.
            He joined the 51st Battalion as a reinforcement in 1916 and
            was killed at Bullecourt on 2nd April 1917.

            Dedicated by Hale School.
            Placed by his niece Mrs Constance Barrett-Lennard, assisted
            by her grandson, Old Haleian Nicholas Clark (1991-98).
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