SOLDIERS IN OTHER REGIMENTS

Private Robert Coop, 4661

Private Robert Coop, 4661
21st Battalion, Royal Fusiliers

Newspaper obituary:

"A promising young fellow, Private Robert Coop, son of the late Mr. Walter Coop, of the firm of R. H. Coop and Sons, undertakers, has fallen in the war. Private Coop was 21 years of age, and was educated at Dawson's Brighton House College and then at Arnold House School, Blackpool, leaving at the age of 17 to become assistant secretary at the Moss lane Mill, Heyside. He enlisted in October 1914, and the same month his father died. Robert joined the Public Schools' Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers, having failed in an attempt to join the yeomanry. He had been out at the front 12 months, and two letter were received from him last week stating that he was all right. Now there comes to hand a letter from the chaplain of his battalion conveying the sad news that he was killed in action last Saturday and intimating that he had buried the unfortunate man. Private Coop was closely identified with St. Thomas's Church and School, Werneth, being junior superintendent of the Sunday School, and he had also charge of the C. L. B. movement connected with the church/ his mother resides at Penrhos, Grange Avenue, and he has a brother aged 15 and a sister aged 13."

Medal Index Card

Epitaph on Headstone

He was buried in the Dantzig Alley British Cemetery, Mametz.

CWGC

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