Name
Cecil John Cooper
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
12/12/1917
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
28076
Bedfordshire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY
XXVII. DD. 7.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hertford Town Memorial,
All Saints Church Memorial, Hertford,
St Andrew’s Church Roll of Honour, Hertford,
St Andrew’s Church Memorial, Hertford,
Hertford Grammar Memorial - now Richard Hale School, Hertford
Pre War
Born in 1892 in Hertford son of Edward and Minnie L. Cooper, of 20 Queen's Road, Hertford.
In 1911 he was living in a boarding house at 88 Midland Road, Bedford working as an apprentice ironmonger.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Bedford and died of wounds probably in a hospital near Poperinge.
Additional Information
Cecil is also commemorated on his parents’ grave in Hertford (All Saints) Churchyard. His part of the inscription reads:
ALSO IN MEMORY OF CECIL JOHN ELDEST SON OF THE ABOVE (Edward & Minnie Cooper, WHO DIED OF WOUNDS 12 DECEMBER 1917 BURIED IN LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY, BELGIUM
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
