Name
Mark Cooper
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
12/10/1916
36
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
31083
Royal Fusiliers *1
34th (County of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CONTAY BRITISH CEMETERY, CONTAY
IV. B. 11
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Redbourn Town Memorial
Pre War
Born in 1880 in Redbourn, Herts. son of Thomas and Louisa Cooper and living in Beaumonts Halt, Redbourn, Herts. in 1901 and 1911.
Wartime Service
Died of wounds probably in a casualty clearing station in Contay.
Additional Information
Brother of Private Jesse Cooper who died on 25 Sep 1914 and who is also commemorated on this memorial.
*1 Believed more correctly, (County of London) Bn London Regiment – some sources suggest it was a Labour Battalion.
Acknowledgments
Gareth Hughes, Malcolm Lennox
