246122 2nd. Lt. John Patrick Copinger British Army 2/4th Btn. Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (d.10th September 1917) John Copinger was born on 28th August 1888, son of the late Rev. H.E and Annie Stewart Copinger, 30 Sherborne Gardens, Ealing, London. HeServed with the 2/4th Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. He was killed in action on 10th September 1917 age 29 years Ypres Salient, Battle of Passchendaele. So ended the attack on Hill 35. Upon its slopes were added our dead to the dead of many regiments. But our casualties were few considering that the attack had been brought to a standstill by machine-gun fire. Of D Company officers Guest was wounded (he had behaved with gallantry in the attack) and Copinger missing. He is buried in New Irish Farm Cemetery (the cemetery was created after the Armistice and is the final resting place for 4,500 soldiers who were reburied from the battlefields north east of Ypres). A pupil of of Bedford Modern School 1902-05, commemorated on the School War Memorial, which was unveiled in 1923 and in the Roll of Honour, published in The Eagle, December 1923. Information courtesy of www.roll-of-honour.com
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