Lieutenant Percy Newberry Cooper

Army Number: n/a

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

Born in London and lived at 24 Bridgford Road, West Bridgford, Nottingham. Son of Percy Joseph and Florence Jane Cooper, of West Bridgford, Nottingham. He enlisted on 30th January 1915 at Nottingham and went to France on 3rd December 1915 joining the 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, on 5th December 1915. He was promoted to Lieutenant and Lewis Gun officer in 1916. He died of wounds on 6th July 1916, aged 21, received in the attack on La Boisselle, France on the 5th July during the Battle of the Somme.

Buried: Corbie Communal Cemetery Extension, France. Plot 1. Row B. Grave 46

Lieutenant Percy Newberry Cooper is also commemorated on the following local memorials:–
Nottingham Boys School War Memorial, Nottingham.
St. Giles Church War Memorial, West Bridgford, Nottingham.
West Bridgford War Memorial, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.