Private Austin Frederick Copeland

Austin Copeland served as a Private in the 1st/5th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, service number 59951. He had enlisted the Leicestershire Regiment, service number 27580, at Market Harborough.

He was the son of Frederick J. & Anna Copeland, and was born in 1899, in Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire. Frederick is recorded as a Framework Knitter in the 1901 and it may have been to seek employment in the hosiery trade that caused the family to move to Kibworth.

Austin was aged 18 when he was killed on 11th February 1918.

Private Copeland was awarded the Victory Medal and the British War Medal, and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, panel 19 to 23 and 162.