Soldiers of the RegimentPrivate
Harold Gordon Cooper
Private Harold Gordon Cooper, number 1207, served with the 5th
Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment from 4th June 1910, when
he attested at the age of 19 years. He went overseas to the
Western Front with the rest of the battalion on 14th February 1915.
He received the new number 240097 in 1917, and was discharged on 17th
October 1918 because of wounds. He received a gun shot wound to
the right forearm. In the Second World War he served with the 59th
County of Lancaster (Post Office) Battalion, Home Guard, Lancaster 'B'
Company.
Private Harold Gordon Cooper, 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own Royal
Lancaster Regiment.
Accession Number: KO2412/01
Standing is Private Harold Gordon Cooper of the 1st/5th Battalion, King's
Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, photographed in around November or
December 1914 in Sevenoaks.
Accession Number: KO2412/02
Second from the left, standing, is Private Harold Gordon Cooper of the
1st/5th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, photographed on
the 26th November 1914 with other members of the Officers Mess staff.
Accession Number: KO2412/03
Studio photograph of Private Harold Gordon Cooper of the 1st/5th
Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, photographed at Hood'
Studio, High Road, Kilburn.
Accession Number: KO2412/04
Private Harold Gordon Cooper of the 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own Royal
Lancaster Regiment, photographed in August 1914 in
the Wagon Works, Caton Road, Lancaster, used as temporary accommodation
for the newly mobilised battalion.
Accession Number: KO2412/05
Private Harold Gordon Cooper of the 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own Royal
Lancaster Regiment, guarding the Great Western Railway line in the
Didcot area circa September 1914. The battalion were deployed to
protect lines of communication against German attack.
Accession Number: KO2412/06
Photograph identified as taken in Germany in 1919, but clearly not
members of the King's Own from the cap badges, and after the date that
Private Cooper had been discharged.
Accession Number: KO2412/07
Other items in the collection:
| Postcard ‘Good Luck’ featuring a black cat.
Accession Number: KO2412/08 |
| Postcard ‘Good Luck’ featuring a black cat, addressed to Private
G Cooper, serving with 166/2 Trench Mortar Battery, June 1917.
Accession Number: KO2412/09 |
| Good Luck Card featuring a rose.
Accession Number: KO2412/10 |
| Christmas Card
Accession Number: KO2412/11 |
| Christmas Card
Accession Number: KO2412/12 |
| Message to all Officers and Soldiers of the Corps, from
Lieutenant General Sir Aylmer Hunter-Weston.
Accession Number: KO2412/13 |
| Paperwork for issue of Silver War Badge, number B46290, to
Gordon Cooper, Number 240097 of the 1/5 KO.
Accession Number: KO2412/14 |
| Letter dated 11 May 1921 relating to application for
Decorations, namely British War and Victory Medals.
Accession Number: KO2412/15 |
| Discharge certificate badly damaged by water and mould.
Accession Number: KO2412/16 |
| Letter from Lancaster and Morecambe Post Office Company Home
Guard, 21 Aug 1940 regarding volunteer service.
Accession Number: KO2412/17 |
| Letter regarding the role of the Post Office Home Guard and the
Role of the Factory Home Guard Units, Jul 1941
Accession Number: KO2412/18 |
| Letter from 59th County of Lancashire (Post Office) Home Guard
Lancaster B Company re service from 9 Aug 1940 to 11 Apr 1944
Accession Number: KO2412/19 |
| News cutting re the wedding of Private H G Cooper and Miss M M
Hull
Accession Number: KO2412/20 |
| Soldiers Pay Book to Private Gordon Cooper of the 5th KORLR.
Accession Number: KO2412/21 |
| Letter re pension 23 Feb 1922
Accession Number: KO2412/22 |
| Form re pension, 23 Feb 1922, gun shot wound to right forearm
due to service.
Accession Number: KO2412/23 |
| Certificate of Identity and Provisional Protection Certificate
to Private Gordon Cooper, 17 Oct 1918
Accession Number: KO2412/24 |
| Route book 1914-1917 with various diary and other notes by
Private G Cooper
Accession Number: KO2412/25 |
| Rules and Standing Orders booklet of the 5 KORLR
Accession Number: KO2412/26 |
| Letter to Aunt Mary, from Gordon Cooper, dated 22 Jan 1916
Accession Number: KO2412/27 |
| Letter to Jim from Gordon Cooper (signed Dick) undated, but
after he was wounded, written from North Evington Hospital,
Leicester
Accession Number: KO2412/28 |
| Letter to Jim, 4 Sep 1917 from Gordon Cooper (signed Dick)
Accession Number: KO2412/29 |
| Letter to Dear Jim and all, from Gordon Cooper, 19 Jul 1915 page
one
Accession Number: KO2412/30a |
| Letter to Dear Jim and all, from Gordon Cooper, 19 Jul 1915 page
two
Accession Number: KO2412/30b |
| Letter to Aunt from Gordon Cooper, Jun 1915 page one
Accession Number: KO2412/31a |
| Letter to Aunt from Gordon Cooper, Jun 1915 page one
Accession Number: KO2412/31b |
| Letter to Aunt and all, 12 Apr 1915 from Gordon Cooper
Accession Number: KO2412/32 |
| Cloth patch - 55th West Lancashire Division
Accession Number: KO2412/33 |
| Cloth patch - 55th West Lancashire Division
Accession Number: KO2412/34 |
| Blue grenade flash
Accession Number: KO2412/35 |
| Sleeve patch four red chevrons on khaki background
Accession Number: KO2412/36 |