BORN DRIFFIELD 1891. ELDEST SON OF MARY HANNAH COOPER, OF 1, WILSONS COURT, DOCK STREET, HULL & 11, BOURNE STREET, HULL. HE HAD FOUR SISTERS AND ONE BROTHER. A FORMER SOLDIER WHO HAD SERVED FOUR YEARS IN INDIA. HE WAS A SHIPYARD LABOURER, IN CIVILAIN LIFE.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS PRIVATE, 9646, 2ND EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, “G” COMPANY. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 15/01/1915. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 09/04/1915, AGED 24. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE YPRES MENIN GATE MEMORIAL, BELGIUM.
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER, MARY, HIS ELDER BROTHER, JOSEPH AND SISTERS ANNIE AND DAISY.
First name:
CHARLES
Military Number:
9646
Rank:
Private
Date Died
09/04/1915
Place died:
Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
24
