HERBERT COOPER

Image from the Suffolk Chronicle And Mercury newspaper 1917.

 

Born: 1896, Ipswich.

Died: 28th April 1917; age: 20; KiA.

Residence: 22, Milner Street, Ipswich.

Enlistment Location: Ipswich.

 

Rank: Private; Service Number: 43717

Regiment: Suffolk Regiment, 2nd Battalion.

Formerly 2472, Suffolk Cyclist Battalion.

 

Medals Awarded: Victory & British War.

 

Memorial Reference:

Bay 4.

Arras Memorial,

Pas de Calais,

France.

 

CENSUS

 

1901   22, Milner Street, Ipswich.

 

Herbert was 5 years old and living with his parents & siblings.

Leonard Cooper, 34, a Brazier, born Rendham, Suffolk.

Emily Cooper (nee Forsdick), 33, born Saxmundham, Suffolk.

Leonard Frederick Cooper, 10, born Ipswich.

Laura May Cooper, 7, born Ipswich.

Lily Grace Cooper, 1, born Ipswich.

 

1911   22, Milner Street, Ipswich.

 

Herbert was 15 years old, an Office Boy – Commercial. He was living with his parents & siblings.

Leonard, 44, a Tinman – Tinmaker.

Emily, 43.

Leonard, 20, a Warehouseman – Corn Merchant.

Laura, 17, a Domestic.

Lily, 11.

Rosa Cooper, 6, born Ipswich.

Ellen Violet Cooper, 10 months, born Ipswich.

 

Entry from the Diary of William Motts – “The Steeple Keeper” courtesy of David Evans St. Margaret’s Church, Ipswich:

Herbert is also remembered on the war memorial at the Presbyterian Church formerly on London Road, Ipswich.

Suffolk Regiment, 2nd Battalion:

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