1685 Pte Samuel Coope, 5th Loyal North Lancashire Regiment

1685 Private Samuel Coope of the 5th Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment died 100 years ago today on the 19th August 1914. Soldiers Died in The Great War records his battalion as the 1/5th Loyal North Lancs. This is incorrect as by this stage of the war there was only the 5th Battalion. It would not be until October 1914 that a second line battalion would be formed, at which point the original 5th battalion became the 1/5th.

Samuel enlisted at Farnworth, Lancashire in May 1913 and died in the UK, presumably as a result of sickness or perhaps an accident. He was 23 years old and is buried in the churchyard extension of St John the Baptist church in Chipping Sodbury.  The excellent Commonwealth War Graves Commission website now contains grave registration reports and grave registers and in Samuel's case, the former notes his next of kin as William Coope of 11 Greek Street, Farnworth.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

 

 



Photo of St John the Baptist Church borrowed from Simon Gerhand's gallery.