Private Albert William Cooper

Army Number: 268894

Battalion: 1/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born 26th April 1897 at Barlborough, Derbyshire. Son of Robert Henry and Elizabeth Cooper, of 130, Sandy Lane, Worksop, Nottinghamshire. He was a woodturner at Mssrs; Oates Ltd. Worksop prior to enlisting at Worksop. He was killed in action, 7th October 1918, aged 21, whilst serving in the trenches near Seqehart, France.

Commemorated: Vis-En-Artois Memorial, France. Panel 7.

Private Albert William Cooper is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Worksop War Memorial, Worksop, Nottinghamshire.
St. Mary and St. Cuthbert’s Priory Church War Memorial, Worksop, Nottinghamshire.
Worksop Methodist Church (Crossing Church War Memorial), Worksop, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

His brother Private John Henry Cooper, 1st Battalion Canadian Infantry also fell in the Great War.