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Koops-P-Pte

Page history last edited by Lenore Frost 7 years ago

Volunteers of Essendon and Flemington, 1914-1918

 

Koops P    Pte        Percy               4 Depot Bn    21    Jockey    Single    C of E       

Address:    Ascot Vale, Moonee St, 9   

Next of Kin:    Mother, 8 Moonee St, Ascot Vale   

Enlisted:    26 Jul 1915       

Embarked:     Discharged medically unfit   

 

Relatives on Active Service:

Koops-R-Pte-1889   brother

Koops W Pte 3520

Koops G M Pte 1310

 

P. Koops, rider of Embrasene in the  

Hurdle Race at Launceston last Saturday,

sustained a broken arm through his mount

falling. At about the same, time his brother,

George Koops, also a jockey, attempted,

suicide in Melbourne. He had not long

returned from France, where he had been

fighting with the A.I.F.

 

WORLD OF SPORT. THE TURF. (1918, October 5).

Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW : 1888 - 1954),

p. 3. Retrieved July 31, 2015, from

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article45456164

 

 

War Service Commemorated

St Pauls Anglican Church, Ascot Vale

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