Leonard Holmes's Story.
The Chester Chronicle, Saturday July 15, 1916.
Leonard Holmes Cooper, son of Mr and Mrs W F Cooper, 41 Cherry Rd Chester, has been killed in action during the great advance. He was aged 22 and was educated at St. Pauls school Broughton. He enlisted in August 1914 in the 5th dragoons, and was transferred to the second dragoons, from which regiment he was discharged through being kicked on the knee by a horse. In June of 1915 he enlisted again in a famous infantry regiment and gained the cross guns. Whilst out in France he used to write most cheery and humorous letters, his mother receiving one only the Sunday before he was killed. At the time he wrote he was in the best of spirits. He was a bright young fellow, and was liked and esteemed by all who knew him. His brother Arnold is serving with the Cheshire Brigade Royal Field Artillery. (T.F.)