The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private A H Cooper

Private Alfred Henry COOPER, 240414, 1st/5th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (Territorial Force, TF/1893), died, Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force, death assumed on or after, 30th August 1916, age 26. Prisoner of War.

Born Bromley, Kent, son of Alfred Henry and Jane Cooper, of 23, Treelands Road, Bromley, Kent.

1911 Census - 23, Treelands Road, Bromley, Kent - Alfred Cooper, head, age 46, married, blacksmith manager, born Hartley, Kent; Jane Cooper, wife, age 44, married 24 years, 6 children, all still alive, born Farningham, Kent; Alfred Cooper, son, age 21, single, barristers clerk, born Bromley, Kent; Eloy? Cooper, son, age 23, single, stationers assistant, born Chislehurst, Kent; Kathleen Cooper, daughter, age 24, single, born Farningham, Kent; Fred Cooper, son, age 18, single, blacksmith assistant, born Bromley, Kent; Alice Cooper daughter, age 15, single, domestic servant, born Bromley, Kent; Ernest Cooper, son, age 7, school, born Bromley, Kent.

Enlisted Bromley, Kent.

26th August 1915, posted Asiatic Theatre of War.

Buried at Baghdad (North Gate) Cemetery,XXI. R. 45. , Iraq. Commemorated on Bromley War Memorial.

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