The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private E G Cooper

Photograph by "Len"

Private Ernest George COOPER, G/21462, 7th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died of wounds, (shell wounds, both thighs buttocks & forearm, Flanders France, 29th August 1918.

26th July 1896, born St Lukes, Gloucester, son of Walter George & Annie Jane Cooper, 9 Aitken Street, Barton Hill, Bristol.

16th August 1896, St Philip & Jacob, Bristol, christening of Ernest George Coper, son of Walter George & Annie Jane Cooper.

1911 Census - 9 Aitken Street, Barton Hill, Bristol - Walter George Cooper, head, age 37, married, tanner, leather trader, born Gloucestershire; Annie Jane Copper, wife, age 34, married 15 years, 5 children, all still alive, weaver cotton, cotton works, born Bristol; George Ernest Cooper, son, age 14, paper bag manufacturing, printing works; born Bristol; Elsie Emily Cooper, daughter, age 12, born Bristol; Winifred Lily Cooper, daughter, age 11, born Bristol; Frederick Walter Cooper, son, age 8, born Bristol; Doris Annie Cooper, daughter, age 7, born Bristol;

Enlisted Bristol, Gloucestershire, age 19 years & 1 month, height 5ft 2 inches, weight 110lbs. Resided Bristol, Gloucestershire. Formerly cotton operative.

Home 31st May 1915 to 29th January 1916; BEF 30th January 1916 to 29th August 1916.

31st May 1915, enlisted & posted 14th Gloucester Regiment, Service No.20987; 8th August 1915, Bristol, absent from duty as mess orderly, 5 days confined to Barracks; 30th January 1916, posted BEF; 19th July 1917 to 29th July 1917, leave; 19th February 1918, transferred to 12 Entrenching Battalion; 1st April 1918, attached 7th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 23rd July 1918, posted 12th Battalion, Gloucester Regiment; 6th August 1918, transferred to 7th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment;

24th March 1919, date when Separation Allowance of 7/3 a week paid to mother, will cease.

12th October 1919, Statement of Relatives - Father, Walter George Cooper, 9 Aitken Street, Barton Hill, Bristol; Mother, Annie Jane Cooper, 9 Aitken Street, Barton Hill, Bristol; Brother - Frederick Walter Cooper, age 17, 9 Aitken Street, Barton Hill, Bristol; Sisters - Elsie Emily Cooper, age 21, 9 Aitken Street, Barton Hill, Bristol; Winifred Lily Cooper, age 19, 9 Aitken Street, Barton Hill, Bristol; Doris Annie Cooper, age 15, 9 Aitken Street, Barton Hill, Bristol.

Buried at Daours Communal Cemetery Extension, VIII. A. 1., France.

NOTE - His Royal West Kent Regiment Service No. was 21462 not 20987 (as shown on headstone), that was when he was in the Gloucester Regiment. Also his death was reported on the 30th August 1918, in that he had died on 29th August 1918.

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