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Pte. John William Cooper
British Army 1st/8th Battalion Durham Light Infantry
from:Gateshead
(d.27th Mar 1918)
John Cooper died age 25 whilst serving with the 8th DLI. He was born in Jarrow. The 1911 census records his as John William Cooper age 18 Unemployed Labourer living with his mother Isabella Hunter (formerly Cooper nee Butland) and his stepfather Edward Hunter and family at 55 Wylam Street, Jarrow on the 1911 census. His father was the late Robert Cooper.
John lived in Jarrow and Gateshead, he enlisted in Gateshead.
He is remembered on the Pozieres Memorial.