The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private J W Cooper

Private John Walter COOPER, G/21074, 10th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, death assumed on or after, 23rd March 1918.

Born Fransham, Norfolk, son of George Matthew & Sarah Ann Cooper, Scanning Fen, East Dereham, Norfolk.

1911 Census - Fen, Scarning, Dereham, Norfolk - George Cooper, head, age 55, married, horseman on farm, born Beaston, Norfolk; Sarah Ann Cooper, wife, age 26, married 31 years, 6 children, all still alive, born Fransham, Norfolk; Water Cooper, son, age 22, single, farm labourer, born Fransham, Norfolk.

Enlisted Norwich, Norfolk, age 27 years & 6 months, height 5ft 2½ inches, weight 109lbs. Resided Scanning Fen, East Dereham, Norfolk. Formerly labourer.

Home 25th March 1916 to 17th July 1916; BEF 18th July 1916 to 17th December 1916; Home 18th December 1916 to 31st August 1917; BEF 1st September 1917 to 23rd March 1918.

25th March 1916, called up for service; 29th March 1916, posted 9th Battalion, Royal West Surrey Regiment, Service No.9107; 17th July 1916, embarked; 29th July 1916, attached 10th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 15th September 1916, transferred to 10th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 19th December 1916 to 22nd March 1917, Wharncliffe War Hospital, Sheffield, albuminuria; 31st March 1917 to 23rd July 1917, posted Easter Command Depot, Shoreham by Sea, Sussex, nephritis; 1st September 1917, posted BEF.

14th October 1919, Statement of Relatives - Father, George M Cooper, age 64, Scanning Fen, East Dereham; Mother, Sarah Ann Cooper, age 64, Scanning Fen, East Dereham; Brother - George M Cooper, age 39, Scanning Fen, East Dereham; Sisters - Florence Cooper, age 36?, 25? West Bourne Park, Harrow Road, Paddington; Agnes Cooper, age 34?, 28 Randle? Cowley, Oxford; Ethel Cooper, age 29, E? Fash? Paragon Hotel, Margate; Alice? M Cooper, age 26, 272 High Road, Kilburn, London, NW.

Commemorated at Arras Memorial, Bay 7, Pas de Calais, France.

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