Name
Edward Cooper
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
16/11/1914
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Trooper
2929
2nd Life Guards
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
DADIZEELE NEW BRITISH CEMETERY
V1.D.20
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
North Mymms War Memorial North Mymms War Shrine (now lost) St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, North Mymms North Mymms Memorial Hall Memorial, Welham Green
Pre War
Born in 1893 nr Wendover in Buckinghamshire. In 1911 we find Edward living with John and Lucy Howard in Haddon, Yaxley Peterborough aged 18 years and a gamekeeper. His parents Thomas and Sarah were living at the Kennels, North Mymms Park. Father, Thomas, was also a gamekeeper, as was his brother Alfred. His brother George was an assistant gamekeeper. Other siblings: Oliver, Arthur, Annie and Phyllis were all of school age. The family consisted of 10 children, 1 whom had died. The family had clearly moved with Thomas’s job as he was born in Bromsgrove, and the children were born in North Wales, Buckinghamshire, Norfolk and the youngest Phyllis in North Mymms.
Wartime Service
Francis enlisted in the 2nd Life Guards in March 1914. He was at that time working as a keeper on the estate of His Majesty The King at Winsor. He went to France early on in the war as part of the British Expeditionary Force and was an “Old Contemptible”. In October 1914 he was reported missing, afterwards it was ascertained that he had been wounded and taken prisoner. He later died of his wounds whilst a Prisoner of War in Germany.
Acknowledgments
Mike Allen
