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Cooper brothers of Braintree

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+++DetEcTive+++ Report 13 Oct 2018 00:24

From a newspaper article

Harry, Arthur, Bertie and George Cooper lived with their family in Gooseberry Hall in South Street, Braintree, when war broke out in 1914.

Rifleman Harry, 26, of the 1st Battalion Queen Victoria’s Rifles, was the first to die at the Somme on October 2, 1916. (body never found - name listed on Thiepval Memorial)

Next was Arthur, 29, a Private in the Essex Regiment, who died of wounds on March 25, 1917.

Their 21-year-old brother Bertie followed on April 9, 1917 - he was killed in action while serving as a Private in the 9th Battalion Essex Regiment.

Bertie’s name remains on the Arras Memorial in France.

The final blow to their widower father, Joseph, and his remaining two sons and three daughters, was 24-year-old George’s death on August 5, 1917.

George, a rifleman in the 10th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles, was killed in action and, like Harry, his body was never found.

His name appears on the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing at Ypres in Flanders.

https://tinyurl.com/y7cddlg9 Braintree & Witham Times 12 May 2015

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+++DetEcTive+++ Report 13 Oct 2018 00:19

According to the Every One Remembered site, there are 2330 listings for Cooper.

If you'd like help trying to trace their descendants, then please give the information to identify them.

To start with, apart from Ernest, do you know if any of them married? Did they have any female siblings who may have married?

Search All Member trees - top right under Search - for the names. Send a message to any tree owner who lists them. If the young men had married, they be a direct descendent.

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N17 Report 12 Oct 2018 23:55

Hi It's been a while, but with the 100th anniversary of the WW1 armistice rapidly approaching I hope that I can get in touch with any descendants of the Cooper family of Braintree, who lost four young men between 1916 and 1917. Locally they are quite well known, but my wife, who moved away from the area in 1967, is the grand-daughter of Ernest Cooper, a career soldier and older brother who survived the war. I have contacted the British Legion and remembered the lads on their 'Everyoneremembered' site. What I was hoping for was some more background on the young men themselves. Hopefully somebody can help, and of course photographs would be amazing. Cheers

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