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Name: Henry George Copping
DOB: 20th December 1912
Rank: Private
Service Identity Number: 6202987
Service/Regiment/Corp: Middlesex Regiment
Unit: 1st Battalion
Died: 1st/2nd October 1942
George, as he was known, was the son of Henry George and Mary Copping of Blackwood, Monmouthshire. George was the eldest of 7 children. Ellen, Doris (my mother), Violet, Dorothy, Joyce and Leonard. Leonard was conscripted as a Bevin Boy, to work in the coal mines of Britain between 1943 and 1948.
George was lost in the sinking of the Lisbon Maru.
The above information was provided by Steve Harris nephew of Henry George Copping.
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