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Pte. Charles Frederick Leslie Cooper
British Army Royal Irish Dragoon Guards
from:Battersea, London
Charles Cooper is my grandfather. According to the National Roll of the Great War, he saw action at Mons, La Bassee and Neuve Chapelle. He was attached to the 4th Meerut(Indian) Cavalry Division as a guide.
He was wounded by a gunshot to his head in March 1915 and was invalided to England. He was discharged as being medically unfit in October 1915, he obtained the Silver War Badge No 98011 in 1916. I believe he was awarded the Mons Star, the General Service and Victory Medals.
He was born on 1st September 1893 in Battersea, he married Mary Ann Jane Mackintosh on 6th June 1920, and died in February 1954 at Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton

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