BORN HULL 1899. LIVED & ENLISTED STRATFORD, ESSEX. SON OF WALTER ERNEST & AMY COPEMAN, 58 ABBEY LANE, STRATFORD, EAST LONDON. ELDEST OF FOUR CHILDREN. HE JOINED THE 2ND RIFLE BRIGADE UNDERAGE. ARRIVED IN FRANCE, ON 16/03/1915. WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 09/05/1915, AGED 16. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER, AMY. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL, HAINAUT, BELGIUM.
First name:
GEORGE
Military Number:
5/396
Rank:
Rifleman
Date Died
09/05/1915
Place died:
Ploegsteert Memorial, Hainaut, Belgium
Age:
16
58 ABBEY LANE, LONDON, STRATFORD, NEWHAM, UK
