COOLEY, Evelyn Walter

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Lance Corporal

1st Battalion

Hampshire Regiment

Evelyn was born on the 10th of June 1887 in Carisbrooke to George & Vashti (nee WARNE) COOLEY. Before the outbreak of War Evelyn served as a Prison Warder at Parkhurst Prison & lived at for a time in Northwood.

Evelyn was Killed in Action on the 23rd of August 1916, aged 29, & buried in the Cambrin Churchyard Extension in France in Section Q Grave 19. He rests beneath a Commission Headstone bearing the Family Inscription: "ETERNAL GOD IS OUR REFUGE AND UNDERNEATH ARE THE EVERLASTING ARMS", alongside 1,210 of his First World War comrades. His orignal Grave Marker is held in St. Wilfred's Church in Portsmouth.

Evelyn is also remembered on the County, Northwood & Camphill Prison Warders War Memorials.

CWGC Casualty Record

Cemetary

Sons & Daughters Commemorated Far From Home

Those from the Newport & Carisbrooke area who are buried or commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission outside of the area, both in the UK and in other countries.

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The image is of the Tyne Cot Military Cemetery & Memorial in Belgium.