Private 478589 Wright COOPER
39412 4th Battalion, Manchester Regimenttransferred to 478589 148th Company, Labour Corps
Died of Illness, Sunday 9th June 1918, No.25 Stationary Hospital, Rouen, France, Age 23
Home address:
311 Hyde Road, Denton, Lancashire
Born:
1895, Denton, Lancashire
Parents:
Mary Jane Cooper and Lewis Cooper
118 Victoria Road, Dukinfield, Cheshire
Marital Status:
Married to Maggie Cooper (née Melia)
10 Cheapside, Hyde, Cheshire
Occupation:
Dyer
Enlisted:
Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire
Remembered:
St. Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, France, block Q, plot III, row D, grave 10.
Link to Hyde:
Wife lived in Hyde
He died of Pyaemia, a blood poisoning from pus-forming bacteria released from an abscess.
The message on his CWGC gravestone, put there by Mr Harry Cooper, 38 Thomas St, Hyde: