The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private W Cope

Photograph by "Len"

Private William COPE, G/1910, 7th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died of wounds, 21 Casualty Clearing Station, Flanders France, 14th July 1916.

Born Pratts Bottom, Bromley, Kent, son of William & Sarah. Cope, of 3, Mill Cottages, Downe, Farnborough, Kent.

4th December 1887, Cudham, Kent, baptism of William Cope, son of William & Sarah Cope.

1911 Census - 3, Mill Cottages, Downe, Orpington, Kent - Sarah Cope, head, age 55, widow, 3 children, all still alive, charwoman, born Cudham, Kent; William Cope, son, age 23, single, builders labourer, born Cudham, Kent; Beatrice Cope, daughter, age 20, single, domestic housemaid, born Cudham, Kent; Frank Budgen, boarder, age 19, single, gardeners laqbourer, born not known.

Enlisted Bromley, Kent, age 26 years & 11 months, height 5ft 11¼ inches, weight 144lbs, fresh complexion, brown eyes, light brown hair, mole right thigh, scar left thigh, scar left cheek. Formerly labourer.

Home 7th September 1914 to 25th July 1915; BEF 26th July 1915 to 14th July 1916.

7th September 1914, enlisted & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 9th September 1914, posted 7th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 26th July 1915, posted BEF; 18th August 1916, 15 Field Ambulance, In the Field, gonorrhea; 20th August 1916, 5H Field Ambulance, In the Field, gonorrhea; 20th August 1916, Corbie, 5 Casulaty Clearing Station, gonorrhea; 22nd August 1916, Etaples, 26 General Hospital, V.D. gonorrhea; 23rd August 1915, Havre, 9 General Hospital, V.D. gonorrhea; 29th September? 1915, V.D. gonorrhea, discharged to No.1 Camp ???; 27th December 1915, admitted 26 General Hospital, skin disease; 30th December 1915, discharged for duty to Base Depot, 18 IBD; 20th January 1916, admitted to 24 General Hospital, NYD; 30th January 1916, discharged to C.C. (bronchitis); 21st February 1916, 18 Infantry Base Depot; 3rd March 1916, joined 4th Entrenching Battalion, In the Field; 17th April 1916, 11 Field Ambulance, inflamed right knee; 5th May 1916, 4th Entrenching Battalion, arrived from Hospital; 12th May 1916, Field Ambulance, septic knee; 15th May 1916, 4th Entrenching Battalion, rejoined from Hospital; 28th May 1916, rejoined 7th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment.

12th July 1919, Statement of Relatives - Mother, Mrs Sarah Cope, Mill Cottages, Downe, Kent; Sisters - Charlotte Cope, age 30, Earl? Cleveden?, Somerset; Beatrice Archer, age 28, Mill Cottages, Downe, Kent.

Buried at La Neuville British Cemetery, I. B. 33. , Corbie, Somme, France.

This page was last updated on 19-Feb-2018.