Lives of the First World War

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ID: 953491

Reference: WO372/5

Title: Medal Index Card

Description: Medal index cards were created by the Army Medal Office towards the end of the First World War. They record the medals that men and women who served in the First World War were entitled to claim.

URL: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=D1940848
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UPP: GBM/MCI/0954375

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 7349769

Reference: CWGCCASUALIWM

Title: Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) Casualty Records

Description: The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) commemorate First World War servicemen and women and members of some civilian organisations who died before 31 August 1921 while in Commonwealth military service or of causes attributable to service.

Connected by: Imperial1

URL: http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/759318/
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UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/592798

Additional: This record has been automatically matched to the Life Story by IWM, using rules based on name, rank, number, regiment and service.

Credit: © Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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ID: 8507929

Title: Ossett WW1 History

Description: Biography

Connected by: ALAN71313

URL: http://ossett.net/WW1/Squire_Cooper.html
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ID: 8527540

Reference: wwisd

Title: Soldiers died in the Great War 1914-1919 Transcription

Connected by: Linda571

UPP: GBM/WWISD/0354380

Credit: © Naval and Military Press Ltd

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ID: 8527605

Title: Squire Cooper from Barnsley Chronicle

Description: A newspaper photo of a young man, in uniform, bare headed. From the Barnsley Chronicle 30 September 1916 (Thanks to Barnsley Archives)

Connected by: Linda571

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ID: 8527606

Name: 30 September 1916

Reference: Barnsley Archives

Title: Barnsley Chronicle

Description: A newspaper clipping reporting that this man is missing.

Connected by: Linda571

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ID: 8932724

Name: Barnsley Chronicle, Saturday 04/11/1916

Reference: Barnsley Archives

Title: Obituary

Description: Obituary, Squire Cooper: 'COOPER,- In affectionate remembrance of Pte Squire Cooper, 10th K.O.Y.L.I, the beloved husband of Dorothy Cooper, who was killed in action in France, July 1st, 1916, aged 33 years. He served his country and did his duty well, Fearless and true until the day he fell; He proved to all in his young life's short span, That he was both a soldier and a man. He sleeps not in his native land, But 'neath some foreign skies: And far from those who love him best, But in a hero's grave he lies.'

Connected by: Jane116773

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ID: 8932737

Title: Squire Cooper circa 1912

Description: This is a photograph taken cica 1912 outside The Spencers Arms, Barugh Green. Squire Cooper is the man on the far left with the white bow tie. His father, Thomas Cooper is the man on the right of the photograph smoking a pipe.

Connected by: Jane116773

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ID: 8932739

Title: 10th Battalion Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

Description: This is a photograph of Squire Cooper's Battalion taken at La Neuville, Corbie, France.

Connected by: Jane116773

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ID: 8932742

Title: Thiepval Memorial

Description: This is a photograph taken of Squire Cooper's name on Thiepval memorial, Pier and Face 11C and 12A

Connected by: Jane116773

Additional: Squire Cooper is my husband's great uncle, we researched his WW1 record and located where he is remembered. The photograph was taken in 2016, on hundred years since the start of the Battle of the Somme.

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ID: 8932747

Title: Thiepval Memorial

Description: Squire Cooper remembered on Thiepval Memorial

Connected by: Jane116773

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ID: 8933856

Name: 3 July 1915

Title: Marriage Register of All Saints Church, Wath on Dearne, Yorkshire

Description: A transcription and link to image for the marriage of Squire and Dorothy. Squire gives his occupation as Soldier.

Connected by: Linda571

URL: http://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=gbprs%2fyorkshire%2fmar%2f301711213%2f1&fulfillmentTypeKey=6800
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Additional: We know his wife's name was Dorothy from the death notice she inserted in the Barnsley Chronicle.

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