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Military service
Service number:
814007
Age:
44
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
4th Bn.
Birth:
September 29, 1872
Enlistment:
Cobourg, Ontario
Death:
April 12, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. C. 17.
Digital gallery of Private Walter Henry Cooper
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Roll of Service
From the "University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", published in 1921. -
War Memorial
139th Battalion (Northumberland County) War Memorial plaque, 1919. 130 names of men who originally enlisted with this Ontario unit. On display at the Victoria Hall, 55 King Street West, Cobourg, Ontario. Also shown - Cobourg (Ontario) War Memorial at Victoria Park. -
Photo of Walter Cooper
From: The Varsity Magazine Supplement Fourth Edition 1918 published by The Students Administrative Council, University of Toronto. Submitted for the Soldiers' Tower Committee, University of Toronto, by Operation Picture Me. -
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 663 of 818. -
The Soldiers' Tower
The Soldiers' Tower was built at University of Toronto between 1919-1924 in memory of those lost to the University in the Great War. The names of the fallen were carved on the Memorial Screen seen at photo left. Photo: K. Parks -
Grave Marker
The grave marker at the Bois Carre British Cemetery located on Vimy Ridge at the eastern edge of the town of Thelus, France. The cemetery is about 6 kilometres from Canada's Vimy Memorial. May he rest in peace. (John & Anne Stephens 2013) -
Bois Carre British Cemetery
The Bois Carre British Cemetery located on Vimy Ridge at the eastern edge of the town of Thelus, France. The cemetery is about 6 kilometres from Canada's Vimy Memorial.(John & Anne Stephens 2013) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram May 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Digital gallery of
Private Walter Henry Cooper
Digital gallery of
Private Walter Henry Cooper
Digital gallery of
Private Walter Henry Cooper
Digital gallery of
Private Walter Henry Cooper
Digital gallery of
Private Walter Henry Cooper
Digital gallery of
Private Walter Henry Cooper
Digital gallery of
Private Walter Henry Cooper
Digital gallery of
Private Walter Henry Cooper
BOIS-CARRE BRITISH CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
Thelus is a village 7 kilometres north of Arras and BOIS-CARRE BRITISH CEMETERY is about half a mile east of the village on the south side of the D49 road to Bailleul-sire-Berthoult.
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