Copas, H
HAROLD COPAS
Remembered with honour Pozieres Memorial: Panel 28 and 29.
He enlisted in Bedford; was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and was killed in action during an unsuccessful attack at Hangard. Unfortunately, Harold’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Son of Richard and Clementina (nee SMEDOWICK) COPAS.
His parents married 22 June 1881 at St Paul’s, Southport, Lancs. Clementina died 1919 in the Leicester district aged 60; Richard died 1935 in the Billesdon, Leics, district aged 82.
Harold was born 1893 in Southport, and was baptised 1 October 1893 at St Peter’s, Birkdale, Lancs. He resided in Watford.
On the 1901 Census, aged 7 he lived in Leicester, with his parents and three siblings. On the 1911 Census, a shop assistant aged 17, he still lived in Leicester, with his mother and one sibling.
Service number
31335Rank
PrivateUnit
7th BattalionRegiment
Date of death
02/04/1918Age at death
24Place of death
Memorial(s)
- 1st S.W. Herts Scout Troop [in St Mary's Parish Church Watford] (4)
- Abbot's Langley Herts War Memorial (17)
- Aldbury Herts War Memorial (1)
- Aldenham Herts War Memorial (located in Letchmore Heath Herts) (8)
- All Saints Church Croxley Green Herts (12)
- All Saints Church Harrow Weald Middx (2)
- All Saints Church Hertford (1)
- All Saints Church King's Langley Herts (1)
- All Saints Church Leavesden Herts (31)
- All Saints Church Witham Essex (3)