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Military service
Age:
31
Rank:
Major
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Lanark & Renfrew Scottish Regiment, R.C.I.C.
Death:
September 4, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I, G, 25.
Additional information
Son of Charles Gill Cooper and Ellen Margaret Cooper, of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; husband of Vera Creet Cooper, of Hamilton.
Digital gallery of Major Charles Gill Cooper
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Cemetery
Row of markers in the tiered cemetery - Gradara War Cemetery - May 2013 Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery
Cross of Sacrifice - Gradara War Cemetery - May 2013 Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery
View of the Cross of Sacrifice from the tiered rows of Gradara War Cemetery - May 2013 -
Grave Marker
Grave marker - Gradara War Cemetery - May 2013 -
Newspaper Clipping
Source: Hamilton Spectator September 14, 1944 -
Inscription
Major CHARLES GILL COOPER is commemorated on the Beamsville Ontario War memorial -
Dedication Panel
Dedication panel on the Beamsville Ontario War memorial. Sadly the town of Beamsville would have to add a panel “IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO FELL IN THE 1939 SECOND WORLD WAR 1945” -
Beamsville Ontario War memorial
Beamsville Ontario War Memorial -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator c. 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator c.1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Major Charles Gill Cooper
Digital gallery of
Major Charles Gill Cooper
Digital gallery of
Major Charles Gill Cooper
Digital gallery of
Major Charles Gill Cooper
Digital gallery of
Major Charles Gill Cooper
Digital gallery of
Major Charles Gill Cooper
Digital gallery of
Major Charles Gill Cooper
Digital gallery of
Major Charles Gill Cooper
Digital gallery of
Major Charles Gill Cooper
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 279 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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