In Memory of Drummer Albert Copping
Albert Copping was born at the end of 1893 to Albert Snr. and Annie Copping. The 1901 census return shows that Albert was the second to last child in the family with siblings ages ranging from 5 to 23. In 1904 the bread winner, brick layer Albert Snr., died and by the time of the 1911 census return the family had scattered. Annie, his little sister, was now a nurse maid for the Salter family in Stradbroke and Albert had enlisted in the Grenadier Guards as a drummer boy and the census return states he was a 'boy soldier'.
Drummer Albert Copping was killed in action just one month after the war began. He is a 'Soldier known to God' and is remembered with honour at LA FERTE-SOUS-JOUARRE MEMORIAL.
This memorial commemorates over 3,700[1] British and Irish soldiers with no known grave, who fell in battle in this area in August, September and early October 1914.
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