Company Sergeant Major John Cooper

Army Number: 6345

Battalion: 10th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 15 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Born at Bingham and lived at 16 Bathley Street, Meadows, Nottingham. Husband of Nellie Cooper, of 10, Woodward Street, Nottingham. He was a pelt sorter prior to enlisting at Nottingham. He went to France on 14th July 1915 and was killed in action, 13th December 1915, aged 44, during the German shelling of the trenches at Sanctuary Wood, Belgium.

Buried: Menin Road South Military Cemetery, Belgium. Plot 2. Row K Grave 18.

Menin Road South Military Cemetery, Belgium.
Company Sergeant Major John Cooper grave

Company Sergeant Major John Cooper is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Saviour’s Church War Memorial, Meadows, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

St. Saviour in the Meadows Church War Memorial, Nottingham.
St. Saviours Church War Memorial, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.