| Notes: | MMP. Awarded the Victory and War Medals. First served abroad (3) Egypt, 3/1/16. He was born at Thornaby, enlisted at Bishop Aukland and resided at Stockton on Tees. Died, accidentally drowned in the River Tigris, Mesopotamia, Army Register of Soldiers' Effects 1901-1929.
Info from Pension Index Cards:- DEPENDANT'S PENSION. DFJ8. Horace Cooper, No. P/2528, MMP, 18/2/1917 accidentally drowned, dependant Mr Caroline Cooper, 53 Thorpe Street, Stockton on Tees, mother. 21/8 1917 awarded 7/6 d a week. Also:- Cooper, Mrs Caroline, 53 Thorpe Street, Stockton on Tees, 2/D/16098, P/2528, Horace Cooper, MMP.
Extract from the Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough 12 July 1917.
Aukland PC's Heroism.
Corporal Cooper, formerly a police constable at Bishop Aukland, has died in Mesopotamia. while serving with the Military Mounted Police. According to information received, one of Cooper's comrades Corporal Bullock (P/1662), was watering the horses and slipped into deep water. Cooper, noticing him, went after him in order to save him, but was carried down stream and drowned. Bullock was saved ay an Indian but a fortnight later died from heart failure. |
