Private Tom Cooper

Army Number: 102798 (formerly 847 East Yorkshire Regiment)

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

Born and lived at Holme-On-Spalding-Moor, Yorkshire. Son of John Watts Cooper and Mary Cooper, of Arglam Lane, Holme-On-Spalding-Moor, Yorkshire. He was a farm labourer prior to enlisting on 27th November 1914 at Hull. He went to British East Africa on 29th December 1915 and went to France on 8th March 1916. He returned to England on 23rd November 1917 and returned to France on 22nd March 1918 and transferred to the 7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, 30th March 1918. He was killed in action, 15th April 1918, aged 25, in the German attack at Kemmel, Belgium.

Commemorated : Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium. Panel 7.

Private Tom Cooper is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
All Saint’s Church Lychgate War Memorial, Holme-On-Spalding-Moor, Yorkshire.