The Roll of Honour, Volume 1 : A biographical record of all members of His…
1914. He left New Zealand with the Main Expeditionary Force, was
promoted Corpl. while in Egypt on Christmas Day, 1914, and was killed
in action at Gallipoli, 2 May, 1915; _unm._ Col. Malone wrote:
“When on the death of all his superior officers I placed him in charge
of my four machine guns and recommended him for a commission to be my
Machine Gun Officer. He was trying to locate the Turk’s fire which was
harassing them when he was shot,” adding that “it was an extremely
plucky act.”
[Illustration: =William John Copeland.=]
=COPLAND, DUDLEY CHARLES JAMES=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Sherwood
Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regt.), only _s._ of
Charles Copland, Professor of Singing, R.A.M; _b._ Hampstead,
2 May, 1896; educ. St. Paul’s Cathedral Choir School and Denstone
College; joined the 28th Battn. (Artists’ Rifles) The London Regt., and
was gazetted to the Sherwood Foresters, 2 March, 1915. He was killed in
action at Aubers Ridge, 9 May, 1915, being buried in the cemetery at La
Cordonnierie.
=COPLAND, LEONARD GEORGE=, Ordinary Telegraphist, J. 14426, H.M.S.
Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov.
1914.
=COPLAND, MAURICE=, Private, No. 2363, 5th (Cinque Ports) Battn.
Royal Sussex Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of John Albert Copland, of
Chelmsford, Solicitor, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Isaac King; _b._
Chelmsford, co. Essex, 21 Dec. 1876; educ. Chelmsford Grammar School,
New College, Eastbourne, and Pembroke College, Cambridge; enlisted 8
Sept. 1914; proceeded with his regt. to the Front, and died in the
Stationary Hospital, Boulogne, 21 March, 1915, while on Active Service;
buried in Wimereux Military Cemetery, Boulogne Base, Grave No. 285;
_unm._
[Illustration: =Maurice Copland.=]
=COPPINGER, CYRIL DOUGLAS=, Private, No. 12650, 1st Battn.
Northamptonshire Regt., only _s._ of Col. Thomas Stephen
Coppinger, of 168, Worple Road, Wimbledon, late 11th Regt., and Chief
Paymaster, A.P.D. (who served in the Zulu war of 1879 and the last
South African war), by his wife, Aldegonde Emily, dau. of Edward
Thomas ffrench Beytagh, Q.C.; _b._ Maidstone, 26 July, 1890;
educ. Wimbledon College, Edge Hill; was a journalist on the stall of
the “Evening Standard,” and latterly a sub-editor on the staff of
the Exchange Telegraph Co. On the outbreak of war he enlisted in the
Northamptonshire Regt., joining the 1st Battn. at the Front, 2 Feb.
1915; he took part in the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, and was killed
in action in a charge on the German trenches at the Aubers Ridge,
between Richebourg l’Avoue and Festubert, 9 May, 1915; _unm._ He
was buried north of the Rue du Bois, between Richebourg St. Vaast and
Richebourg l’Avoue. In announcing his death, the “Pall Mall Gazette”
stated: “He was a young man of great promise, and several of his short
stories, which recently appeared in a number of London magazines,
attracted considerable attention.”
[Illustration: =Cyril Douglas Coppinger.=]
=COPPINS, HUGH JOSEPH=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 15587, H.M.S.
Pathfinder, lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off
the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.
=CORBALLY, LOUIS WILLIAM=, Capt., R.F.A., 3rd _s._ of the
late Matthew James Corbally, of Rathbeale Hall, Swords, co. Dublin,
J.P., D.L., by his wife, Sara Louisa, dau. of Thomas O’Kelly, of Bridge
House, co. Kerry; _b._ Dublin, 27 May, 1876; educ. Stonyhurst and
The Oratory School, Edgbaston; served with the Irish Hunt Yeomanry
through the South African War (medal and clasps), and was gazetted
Capt. R.F.A., 29 Sept. 1914. On the outbreak of the European War he
left with the R.F.A. for the Front; served in France and Flanders, and
died from wounds received in action, at Bailleul, near Ypres, 6 May,