Drummer Albert Copping as a boy soldier in The Grenadier Guards
Title
Drummer Albert Copping as a boy soldier in The Grenadier Guards
Description
Drummer Albert Copping in The Grenadier Gurards.
The 1901 census shows that Albert was the second youngest of the children of Albert Snr. and Annie Copping. In 1904 Alberts father died and by the time of the 1911 census return all of the family had scattered. Albert enlisted and is shown to be a boy soldier.
Albert's war only lasted one month as he was killed sometime between 14th and 16th September 1914. He is a soldier 'known to God'.
Drummer Albert Copping is remembered with honour on the La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre Memorial, France - a memorial dedicated to missing soldiers. He is seen in the photograph 2nd left in the front row.
The 1901 census shows that Albert was the second youngest of the children of Albert Snr. and Annie Copping. In 1904 Alberts father died and by the time of the 1911 census return all of the family had scattered. Albert enlisted and is shown to be a boy soldier.
Albert's war only lasted one month as he was killed sometime between 14th and 16th September 1914. He is a soldier 'known to God'.
Drummer Albert Copping is remembered with honour on the La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre Memorial, France - a memorial dedicated to missing soldiers. He is seen in the photograph 2nd left in the front row.
Creator
SLHG
Date
c1911
Contributor
U, AR
Rights
Stradbroke Village Archive Creative Commons Licence is Attribution NonCommercial-NoDerivs - CC BY-NC-ND http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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Source
Ancestry.com. 1901 England Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.
Original data: Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives, 1901. Data imaged from the National Archives, London,
Ancestry.com. 1911 England Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
Original data: Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA), 1911.
England. The National Archives gives no warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or fitness for the purpose of the information provided. Images may be used only for purposes of research, private study or education. Applications for any other use should be made to the National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU.
Original data: Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives, 1901. Data imaged from the National Archives, London,
Ancestry.com. 1911 England Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
Original data: Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA), 1911.
England. The National Archives gives no warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or fitness for the purpose of the information provided. Images may be used only for purposes of research, private study or education. Applications for any other use should be made to the National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU.
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SVA/6/126
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SLHG, “Drummer Albert Copping as a boy soldier in The Grenadier Guards,” Stradbroke Village Archive, accessed May 2, 2024, https://stradbrokearchive.org.uk/items/show/671.
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Colin Stevens
this is my great uncle, Albert Arthur Copping.