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Military service
Service number:
192472
Age:
33
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
42nd Bn.
Birth:
September 8, 1883
Enlistment:
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
April 9, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Minnie Cooper, of 839, Logan Avenue, Toronto, and the late William Cooper; husband of Gertrude M. Cooper, of 187, Ferrier Avenue, Toronto.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal Herbert Arthur Cooper
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Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: CONNON TO CORBETT. Microform Sequence 22; Volume Number 31829_B016731. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 166. Page 611 of 818. -
Newspaper Clipping
Lance Corporal Herbert Arthur Cooper's brother, Major Charles Edwin Cooper, Military Cross, 3rd Battalion Central Ontario Regiment, was killed on April 28, 1917. -
Badge
Cap Badge 42nd Bn (Royal Highlanders of Canada). Pte Cooper enlisted with the 92nd Bn (48th Highlanders of Canada) but was transferred to the 42nd Bn as a reinforcement. Submitted by Capt (ret’d) V. Goldman, 15th Bn Memorial Project team. DILEAS GU BRATH -
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Shoulder Patch 42nd Bn (Royal Highlanders of Canada). Pte Cooper enlisted with the 92nd Bn (48th Highlanders of Canada) but was transferred to the 42nd Bn as a reinforcement. Submitted by Capt (ret’d) V. Goldman, 15th Bn Memorial Project team. DILEAS GU BRATH -
Badge
Cap Badge 92nd Bn (48th Highlanders of Canada). Private Cooper enlisted in the 92nd Bn but was transferred to the 42nd Bn (Royal Highlanders of Canada) as a reinforcement. Submitted by Capt (ret'd) V.Goldman, 15th Bn Memorial Project Team. DILEAS GU BRATH -
Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. In memory of the members of the 15th, 92nd and 134th Battalions (48th Highlanders) who went to war and did not return. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of HERBERT ARTHUR COOPER
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. In memory of the members of the 15th, 92nd and 134th Battalions (48th Highlanders) who went to war and did not return. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
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Memorial
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram April 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Herbert Arthur Cooper
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Herbert Arthur Cooper
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Herbert Arthur Cooper
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Herbert Arthur Cooper
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Herbert Arthur Cooper
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Herbert Arthur Cooper
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Herbert Arthur Cooper
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Herbert Arthur Cooper
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Herbert Arthur Cooper
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 220 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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