Of 11, Green Street, Moses Gate, Farnworth, Lancashire. Previously worked for the London and North Western Railway Company as a Labourer at Patricroft. Reported to be Farnworth’s first casualty, killed in a railway accident at Chipping Sodbury.
Coope, Samuel –
Personal details
- Surname: Coope
- Forename: Samuel
- Date of birth: Not known
- Birth place: Not known
- Place of residence: Farnworth, Lancashire
- Gender: Male
- Age of death: 23
- Place of death: Not known
- Date of death: August 19th, 1914
- Casualty type: Not known
Service details
- Rank: Private
- Unit: 1st/5th (Territorial) Battalion.
- Service number: 1685
- Regiment: Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
- Enlistment date: Not known
- Enlistment location: Farnworth, Lancashire
- Conflict: WW1
Decorations
- Service medals: Not known
- Silver War badge: Not known
- Awards: Not known
Memorials
- Farnworth "Fallen In The Fight" Book
- Farnworth WWI War Memorial - Farnworth
- London and North Western Railway Company Steam Shed Staff Memorial - Patricroft
- Loyal North Lanacashire Regiment - 5th Battalion (Territorials) Memorial (Queen's Park) - Bolton
- CWGC Memorial: Chipping Sodbury (St. John the Baptist) Churchyard, Gloucestershire, UK
- CWGC reference: H. 86.
Local newspaper entries
- Bolton Journal and Guardian entries: 12/12/1919
- Bolton Journal and Guardian references: 12a
- Bolton Chronicle: 03/04/1915
- Farnworth and Worsley Journal entries: 21/08/1914 06/07/1917 30/11/1917