Private William Cooling

Army Number: 16066

Battalion: 2/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Southwell, Nottinghamshire. Son of Edwin and Ellen Cooling of 3 Lucas Yard, Pleasley, Nottinghamshire. He was a cotton spinner prior to enlisting at Mansfield. he went to France on 29th August 1915 and died of wounds, 5th July 1917.

Buried: Metz-En-Couture Communal Cemetery British Extension, France. Plot 2. Row A. Grave 9.

Metz-En-Couture Communal Cemetery British Extension.

Private William Cooling is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Barnabus Church War Memorial Window, Pleasley, Nottinghamshire.
Southwell Minster Parishioners War Memorial, Southwell, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.