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Pte. Harry Cooper

British Army 12th Service Battalion Suffolk Regiment

from:Wheathead Farm, Whitewell Bottom, Rossendale

(d.14th April 1918)

Harry Cooper was the son of Mr and Mrs Hartley Cooper of Wheathead Farm, Whitewell Bottom, Rossendale, Lancashire. He was employed as a butcher's assistant before the outbreak of WW1. The local paper (The Rossendale Free Press) reported that he died of severe gunshot wounds in Etaples, France where he is buried. Harry's death is recorded on the family grave stone in Lumb Baptist Churchyard Rossendale with the inscription "none knew him but to love him".



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