Name
Harry Cooper
January quarter of 1895
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
12/11/1917
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
25494
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Searched but not found
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HOOGE CRATER CEMETERY
IXA. E. 11.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St Leonard's Church Lychgate, Sandridge, Not on the London Colney memorials (*1)
Pre War
Wartime Service
Harry Cooper was killed during the war and is also commemorated on the Sandridge lychgate. He died in France and is buried at the Hooge Crater Cemetery.
The War Diary of the 1st Battn The Bedfordshire Regiment states:
12th November 1917 - Polygon Racecourse
Battn relieved 12/13 Northumberland Fusiliers in frontline near Polygon Racecourse. Relief was shelled 6 ORs being killed.
Additional Information
Harry was the brother of Emily Swain (nee Cooper), who lost two sons Frederick and Charles Henry Swain to the War. Emily lost her husband, her brother and a brother in law in the same year. *1 Possible the connection is to Colney Heath.
Acknowledgments
Sarah Burns
Jonty Wild, Mark Collins (Great Grandson)
