Roll of Honour of the 710 men of Hyde who fell in WW1
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Albert COPE
Private 31647 Albert COPE of 9th Bn., Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Killed in Action Saturday 2nd September 1916, France & Flanders, age 20
| Home address: | 103 Croft Street, Hyde, Cheshire |
| Born: | 1896, Hyde, Cheshire |
| Parents: | Mary Ann Cope and Samuel Cope of 103 Croft Street, Hyde, Cheshire |
| Marital status: | Widower to Ethel Cope (née Taylor) Died October 1915 |
| Occupation: | Coal Pit Taken Off, Denton Colliery |
| He enlisted in: | Hyde, Cheshire |
| Remembered: | La Laiterie Military Cemetery, Heuvelland, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, VII. D. 2. |
| Link to Hyde: | Born in Hyde |
Shot in the head.
From the Manchester Evening News, 15th Friday September 1916, page 2, column 7:
Shortly before going to France he had buried both his wife and child within a fortnight.