Name
Ernest Cooper
1891
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
02/11/1918
27
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
331067
Lancashire Fusiliers
15th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LANDRECIES BRITISH CEMETERY
B. 62.
France
Headstone Inscription
IN MEMORY EVER DEAR
UK & Other Memorials
Baldock Town Memorial, St Mary the Virgin Church Memorial, Baldock, Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford, Not on the Letchworth memorials, Not listed on the Hertfordshire Yeomanry Memorial, St Albans Cathedral
Pre War
Ernest Cooper was born in Baldock in 1891, the son of George and Annie Cooper and one of six children. He was baptised on 28 February 1892 in Baldock.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at Pond lane, Baldock, where his father was working as a groom and horse keeper on a farm. By 1911 they had moved to Station Road, Baldock, and Ernest was working as a grocery carman.
He married Amy Maria Albon on 12 June 1915 at Hackney Register Office, London. At that time he had already enlisted and his occupation was given as Trooper with the Herts Yeomanry living at The Barracks, Hertford. Amy was living at 83 Fassett Road, Homerton. Their child, Hubert Ernest was born on 17 December 1917.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Hertford and initially joined the Hertfordshire Yeomanry under regimental number 2191 (renumbered in 1917 to 105532). At some point he was transferred to the Lancashire Fusiliers under regimental number 331067 and promoted to Lance Corporal.
He was killed in action on 2 November 1918 and is buried in Landrecies British Cemetery, France.
Additional Information
His widow received a war gratuity of £23 and pay owing of £34 6s 8d. She also received a pension of £1 0s 5d a week for herself and her son. She later lived at Letchworth Lane, Letchworth, Herts.
N.B. Listed at a Private on the Regimental Memorial.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Adrian Pitts, Paul Johnson, Jonty Wild
