- First Name(s):Percy
- Surname:COOPER
- Service Number:16051
- Rank:
Private
- Conflict:WW1
- Service:Army
- Army Sector:Infantry
- Regiment:West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
- Battalion:10th Battalion
- Unit:A Company
- Former Units:None
- Date of Death:2nd November 1916
- Age At Death:23
- Cause of Death:Killed in action
- Place of Death:Unknown
- Place of Burial:Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial, France, Pier and Face 2A 2C and 2D.
- Place of Birth:Rednal, Worcester, resident Rubery, Birmingham, enlisted Birmingham
- Home Town:Unknown
- Casualty's Relatives:
Son of Walter and Elizabeth Cooper, of Thornhaugh, New Road, Rubery, Birmingham
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Rubery Soldier Killed in Action
“News has been received of the death in action from shell-fire, on the 2nd November, of Private Percy Cooper, of the West Yorkshire Regiment. Private Cooper was the son of Mr Walter Cooper, of “Thornhaugh”, New Road, Rubery. He enlisted in September 1914 and had been in France for one year and seven months. He was 23 years of age and before the war he worked at the Austin Motor Works. He was a playing member of the Rubery Football Club.”
Percy Cooper has no known grave, the photograph available shows his name on Thiepval Memorial.
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