Cooper Charles William Lieutenant 457
Personnel Entry
Name Cooper Charles William
Army number 457 (The CANLOAN Officers' Website has his number as CDN 547).
Rank Lieutenant
Decorations
Date of birth Not yet known.
Age 28
Unit Royal Canadian Infantry Corps, CANLOAN Officer. Attached to The Durham Light Infantry, Posted 10th Bn DLI 30/6/1944. DIED of WOUNDS 12/7/1944.
Company/Battery
Platoon or other sub-unit
Task or role
Joined Brigade 30-Jun-44
Promotions
Wounded
Prisoner of War
Died/Killed in action 12-Jul-44
Home address Son of Charles Alfred and Janet Manlin Cooper, Husband of Helen I Cooper, Toronto, Canada. Buried Grave I. C. 4. Hottot-les-Bagues War Cemetery.
Source table 10DLI
To read more about the CANLOAN Scheme, please click here.
To see the Memorial in Canada to these Officers, please click here. Note that Lt Cooper has a different CDN Number (347) on this Memorial than either of those mentioned above.
