Second Lieutenant Dudley Charles James Copland

Army Number: n/a (formerly Private 1323 28th London Regiment (Artists Rifles))

Battalion: 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born 2nd May 1896 at Hampstead, London. Son of Charles and Lillian Copland, of 77, Broadhurst Gardens, Kilburn, London. He was educated at St. Pauls’ Cathedral Choir School and Denstone College, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire. He went to France on 26th October 1914. Was commissioned Second Lieutenant 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, 2nd March 1915. He was killed in action, 9th May 1915, aged 19, in the attack at Rouge Bancs, Near Aubers Ridge, France.

Buried: Le Trou Aid Post Cemetery, Fleurbaix, France. Row C. Grave 8.

Second Lieutenant Dudley Charles James Copland is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Pauls Cathedral Choristers War Memorial, London.
Denstone College War Memorial, Denstone, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire.