COOPER, Walter

Credit: CWGC

Private

3rd Battalion

Worcestershire Regiment

Walter was born 1899 in Newport to Herbert & Elizabeth (nee WARNE) COOPER who were living at 11 Elm Grove, Newport around the time of Walter’s death. Previously the family had been living at 26 Clifford Street also in Newport.

Walter, aged 19, was Killed in Action on the 9th of August 1918 & was originally buried on the battlefield close to where he fell. His body was later exhumed by the 708th Labour Corps & reburied on the 6th of November 1919 in the Hinges Military Cemetery in France beneath a Commission Headstone alongside 104 of his First World War comrades, 20 of whom remain unidentified.

Walter is also remembered on the County & Newport Borough 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.