Name
Gordon Harold Cooper
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
20/03/1916
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
R/14404
King's Royal Rifle Corps
9th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ARRAS MEMORIAL
Bay 7.
France
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Little Heath memorials, Not on Sunninghill, Berks Memorial
Pre War
Gordon Harold Cooper was born in Little Heath in 1896 to Henry Cooper, a blacksmith, and Ellen Jane (nee Robinson.
On the 1901 Census his parents, Edwin H (born 1892) and Gordon were living at New Road, Sunninghill.
On the 1911 Census Gordon was Ironmonger’s shop boy and living with his parents at Carisbrooke Road, Sunninghill, Berks.
Wartime Service
Gordon attested on 5 Jul 1915 for the Kings Royal Rifle Corps as rifleman R/14404 at Southampton and posted to 5th (Reserve) Battalion on 6 Aug 1915 for his initial training.
He embarked for France on 14 Feb 1916 and was posted to 9th (Service) Battalion on 16 Feb 1916. He joined this Battalion in the field on 4 Mar 1916. Gordon was reported killed in action on 25 Mar 1916. His remains were not recovered and he is remembered on the Arras Memorial.
Additional Information
War Gratuity of £3 and arrears of £3 18s 0d was paid too his father.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild
