COOPER, Charles Henry

Charles was born 1917 in Newport to John COOPER & Helen BURROWS (nee ALLEN), who were living at 15 Ash Road, Newport around the time of Charles’ death.

Charles died, aged 24, on the 8th of June 1942. As the Japanese moved successfully down the peninsula a temporary prisoner-of-war camp was established at Pudu jail, to which UK & Commonwealth serviceman were taken before being sent to Changi Camp on Singapore island. Some of them died, of wounds or sickness, while in this camp & were buried here. It is unclear whether Charles was killed in action or died in Japanese hands, but he now rests in the Kuala Lumpa (Cheras Road) Civil Cemetery Malasyia, alongside 155 of his Second World War comrades.

Charles is also remembered on the Carisbrooke & Newport Borough War Memorials