The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Second Lieutenant E H Copeman

Photograph by "Woose"

Second Lieutenant Ernest Hugh COPEMAN, 6th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, attached 37th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry), killed in action, 18th March 1916.

18th August 1888, born Aylsham, Norfolk, son of Thomas & Mariana Copeman.

21st September 1888, Aylsham, Norfolk, baptism of Ernest Hugh Copeman, son of Thomas & Mariana Augusta Copeman.

Lance Corporal, Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex) Regiment, Service No.941.

13th October 1915, posted BEF.

2nd June 1916, Probate - Copeman Ernest Hugh, of Worthing, Second Lieutenant, Royal West Kent Regiment, died 19th March 1916, in France on active service. Probate London 2nd June to * Robert Shuckburgh Copeman land agent & John Young Copeman, Second Lieutenant H.M. Army. Effects £1515 13s 10d.

Commemorated at Loos Memorial, Panel 95 to 97, Pas de Calais, France & on Aylsham War Memorial. and inside the Church of St Michael & All Angels, Aylsham, Norfolk.

* Brother - Captain R S Copeman, The Constitutional Club, Northumberland Avenue, London, WC.

26th January 1915, London Gazette - Infantry- The under mentioned to be temporary Second Lieutenants. Dated 24th January 1915 - Ernest Hugh Copeman.

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