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FREDERICK COOPER

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Rank
Private
Regiment
1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT A COMPANY
Military Number
201115
Address
2 TEMPERANCE TERRACE, WHEELER STREET, HULL
Kingston upon Hull HU3 5AZ
England
Background

BORN HULL 1894. SON OF HENRY COOPER (1853-1953) & ELIZABETH BURROWS (1854-1918), AT 2 TEMPERANCE TERRACE, WHEELER STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS).

ONE OF EIGHT CHILDREN. THE FAMILY ALSO LIVED AT 56 GILLETT STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). HE WAS A REFINER/COLLECTOR, FOR THE HULL CORPORATION.

HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS. SERVED AS 3693 EYR. TRANSFERRED TO THE 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. SEREVED IN FRANCE, FROM 18/11/1915. DIED A PRISONER OF WAR, IN GERMANY, ON 05/11/1918, AGED 24. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER ELIZABETH. HE IS BURIED AT COLOGNE SOUTHERN CEMETERY, GERMANY. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, "BEYOND RECALL BUT EVER IN THOUGHT".

Date Died
05/11/1918
Died
Cologne Southern Cemetery, Germany
Age
24
Memorial
Cologne
North Rhine-Westphalia

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