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Private PERCY EDGAR COPPEN

Service Number: 30042
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Somerset Light Infantry

8th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 16 September 1917

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY

XXVI. B. 10A.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Mary Coppen, of "Sea View," Chatsworth Rd., Torquay, Devon, and the late John James William Coppen. Native of London.
  • Personal Inscription FOR HE HAS FOUGHT HIS BATTLE AND NOW DOES WEAR HIS CROWN
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Buried or commemorated at

ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 11554
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