Private 31647 Albert COPE
9th Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers
Killed in Action, Saturday 2nd September 1916, Belgium, Age 20
Home address:
103 Croft Street, Hyde, Cheshire
Born:
1896, Hyde, Cheshire
Parents:
Mary Ann Cope and Samuel Cope
103 Croft Street, Hyde, Cheshire
Marital Status:
Widower to Ethel Cope (née Taylor) Died October 1915
Occupation:
Coal Pit Taken Off, Denton Colliery
Enlisted:
Hyde, Cheshire
Remembered:
La Laiterie Military Cemetery, Heuvelland, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, plot VII, row D, grave 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.