Name
Horace Percival Cooper
1875
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
16/05/1915
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
15141
Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LE TOURET MEMORIAL
Panel 16 and 17.
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Digswell memorials,
Pre War
Horace Percival Cooper was born 1875 in Guisborough (in 1881 census*1), Yorks, the son of George and Caroline Amelia Cooper.
On the 1881 Census he was living in Digswell with grandparents Joseph and Anne Cooper. [Unable to find on later census records].
*1 Recorded as Born in Digswell, Herts and living in Epsom when he enlisted in the Soldier Died in the Great War database.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Epsom, Surrey and served with the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in France from 28 December 1914.
He was killed in action and death was presumed. His body was not recovered for burial, or not identified, and his name is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial.
Additional Information
His aunt Frances Lanaway received a war gratuity of £3 and pay owing of £9 11s 3d. Service number 151141 in SDITGW database
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild,
