Private Charles Cooper

Army Number: 2595

Battalion: 1/6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at New Mills, Derbyshire. Son of Charles and Martha Cooper, of New Mills, Derbyshire, Husband of Elizabeth Cooper, of 14, New Street, New Mills. He was an engraver prior to enlisting on 10th October 1914 at New Mills. He went to France on 28th February 1915 and received gunshot wounds to his head at Kemmel, Belgium. He was admitted to 11 General Hospital, Boulogne, France 1st June 1915 and was transferred to England on Hospital Ship Dieppe, 3rd June 1915. He died of wounds, 9th June 1915, aged 29, at King George Hospital, Stanford Street, London.

Buried: New Mills (St. George) Churchyard, Derbyshire, United Kingdom. Plot S. Row 14, Grave 11.

Private Charles Cooper is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. George’s Church War Memorial, New Mills, Derbyshire.