Name
Joseph Uriah Copland
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/01/1915
36
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Gunner
NA
Royal Navy
H.M.S. “Formidable”
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL
9.
United Kingdom
UK & Other Memorials
Hertford Town Memorial
Pre War
Born in 1879 in Harefield, Middlesex and baptised on 29 Jun 1879 in St Mary the Virgin, Harefield son of Joseph and Eliza Copland. Father was one-time publican at the Waggon and Horses, Castle Street, Hertford. He married Priscilla Holmes in 1903 in Watford and they lived in Gillingham, Kent.
Wartime Service
Died when the H.M.S. Formidable was torpedoed by U-boat U24 while on exercise off the Devon coast. She was the first British battleship to be sunk in WW1.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
