Aged: 34 Yrs
Murdered
5th Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
Son of George and Mary Cooper; husband of Clara Heyland (formerly Cooper), of Ballintemple, Garvagh, Co. Derry, Northern Ireland.
TWO INDIAN SOLDIERS RUN AMOK
8th Cavalry Indian Army, Jhansi
Two Mohammedian soldiers run amok in the lines shooting and killing, Major Gale and cutting down Lt Courtenay who has since died of his wounds.
The murderers ran towards the Officers mess and on the way, met and wounded Captain Hudson, then turning towards the Artillery barracks, they fired at a Sgt and Bombardier, wounding slightly the former, and killing the latter. The murderers were pursued and shot down by a party of men of the regiment led by two British Officers, but not before they had fired at, and killed, another Officer Captain Cooper.
Yorkshire Post
3rd July 1915.
Murdered
5th Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
Son of George and Mary Cooper; husband of Clara Heyland (formerly Cooper), of Ballintemple, Garvagh, Co. Derry, Northern Ireland.
TWO INDIAN SOLDIERS RUN AMOK
8th Cavalry Indian Army, Jhansi
Two Mohammedian soldiers run amok in the lines shooting and killing, Major Gale and cutting down Lt Courtenay who has since died of his wounds.
The murderers ran towards the Officers mess and on the way, met and wounded Captain Hudson, then turning towards the Artillery barracks, they fired at a Sgt and Bombardier, wounding slightly the former, and killing the latter. The murderers were pursued and shot down by a party of men of the regiment led by two British Officers, but not before they had fired at, and killed, another Officer Captain Cooper.
Yorkshire Post
3rd July 1915.
Aged: 34 Yrs
Murdered
5th Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
Son of George and Mary Cooper; husband of Clara Heyland (formerly Cooper), of Ballintemple, Garvagh, Co. Derry, Northern Ireland.
TWO INDIAN SOLDIERS RUN AMOK
8th Cavalry Indian Army, Jhansi
Two Mohammedian soldiers run amok in the lines shooting and killing, Major Gale and cutting down Lt Courtenay who has since died of his wounds.
The murderers ran towards the Officers mess and on the way, met and wounded Captain Hudson, then turning towards the Artillery barracks, they fired at a Sgt and Bombardier, wounding slightly the former, and killing the latter. The murderers were pursued and shot down by a party of men of the regiment led by two British Officers, but not before they had fired at, and killed, another Officer Captain Cooper.
Yorkshire Post
3rd July 1915.
Murdered
5th Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
Son of George and Mary Cooper; husband of Clara Heyland (formerly Cooper), of Ballintemple, Garvagh, Co. Derry, Northern Ireland.
TWO INDIAN SOLDIERS RUN AMOK
8th Cavalry Indian Army, Jhansi
Two Mohammedian soldiers run amok in the lines shooting and killing, Major Gale and cutting down Lt Courtenay who has since died of his wounds.
The murderers ran towards the Officers mess and on the way, met and wounded Captain Hudson, then turning towards the Artillery barracks, they fired at a Sgt and Bombardier, wounding slightly the former, and killing the latter. The murderers were pursued and shot down by a party of men of the regiment led by two British Officers, but not before they had fired at, and killed, another Officer Captain Cooper.
Yorkshire Post
3rd July 1915.
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