Lieutenant Coppinger is buried at the Aisne-Marne Cemetery, Belleau, France.
From the 7/11/1918 newspaper.
First Oklahoma City Officer to Die in Action Was Born Here.
RAINBOW DIVISION
Sister and Brother Receive Notice of Relative's Death
OKC has given the life of another son to the cause of democracy. First Lieut, Harry Coppinger, 26 years old, was killed in action on June 25, while fighting in an infantry regiment sent to the front to aid the Marines.
The news of his death came last night to his sister Miss Margaret Coppinger, and to is brother Ray Coppinger. Both messages simply gave the news of Lieutenat Coppinger's death.
Lieutenant Coppinger was born in OKC. He was graduated from the Bryant grammar school and then went to the Mexico, Mo., Military School. When the Colubus raid of 1916 called for a mobilization of National Guardsment on the Mexican border Lieutenant Coppinger, then a corporal of Troop B., Oklahoma National Guard responded. In his eight months of servie on the border he was promoted to a sergeancy.
Lieutenant Coppinger was enrolled and after receiving his commission was chosen as member of a small group of officers to go to France with the Rainbow Division.
Letters received from him during May and June told of his fighting in the first line trences. The last letter was received early in June.
Another brother Charles Coppinger is in the Army, now being station at Camp Logan, Houston Texas.
Miss Margaret Coppinger is protrated with grief over the death of her brother and is under the care of a physician.
From the 7/11/1918 newspaper.
First Oklahoma City Officer to Die in Action Was Born Here.
RAINBOW DIVISION
Sister and Brother Receive Notice of Relative's Death
OKC has given the life of another son to the cause of democracy. First Lieut, Harry Coppinger, 26 years old, was killed in action on June 25, while fighting in an infantry regiment sent to the front to aid the Marines.
The news of his death came last night to his sister Miss Margaret Coppinger, and to is brother Ray Coppinger. Both messages simply gave the news of Lieutenat Coppinger's death.
Lieutenant Coppinger was born in OKC. He was graduated from the Bryant grammar school and then went to the Mexico, Mo., Military School. When the Colubus raid of 1916 called for a mobilization of National Guardsment on the Mexican border Lieutenant Coppinger, then a corporal of Troop B., Oklahoma National Guard responded. In his eight months of servie on the border he was promoted to a sergeancy.
Lieutenant Coppinger was enrolled and after receiving his commission was chosen as member of a small group of officers to go to France with the Rainbow Division.
Letters received from him during May and June told of his fighting in the first line trences. The last letter was received early in June.
Another brother Charles Coppinger is in the Army, now being station at Camp Logan, Houston Texas.
Miss Margaret Coppinger is protrated with grief over the death of her brother and is under the care of a physician.
Lieutenant Coppinger is buried at the Aisne-Marne Cemetery, Belleau, France.
From the 7/11/1918 newspaper.
First Oklahoma City Officer to Die in Action Was Born Here.
RAINBOW DIVISION
Sister and Brother Receive Notice of Relative's Death
OKC has given the life of another son to the cause of democracy. First Lieut, Harry Coppinger, 26 years old, was killed in action on June 25, while fighting in an infantry regiment sent to the front to aid the Marines.
The news of his death came last night to his sister Miss Margaret Coppinger, and to is brother Ray Coppinger. Both messages simply gave the news of Lieutenat Coppinger's death.
Lieutenant Coppinger was born in OKC. He was graduated from the Bryant grammar school and then went to the Mexico, Mo., Military School. When the Colubus raid of 1916 called for a mobilization of National Guardsment on the Mexican border Lieutenant Coppinger, then a corporal of Troop B., Oklahoma National Guard responded. In his eight months of servie on the border he was promoted to a sergeancy.
Lieutenant Coppinger was enrolled and after receiving his commission was chosen as member of a small group of officers to go to France with the Rainbow Division.
Letters received from him during May and June told of his fighting in the first line trences. The last letter was received early in June.
Another brother Charles Coppinger is in the Army, now being station at Camp Logan, Houston Texas.
Miss Margaret Coppinger is protrated with grief over the death of her brother and is under the care of a physician.
From the 7/11/1918 newspaper.
First Oklahoma City Officer to Die in Action Was Born Here.
RAINBOW DIVISION
Sister and Brother Receive Notice of Relative's Death
OKC has given the life of another son to the cause of democracy. First Lieut, Harry Coppinger, 26 years old, was killed in action on June 25, while fighting in an infantry regiment sent to the front to aid the Marines.
The news of his death came last night to his sister Miss Margaret Coppinger, and to is brother Ray Coppinger. Both messages simply gave the news of Lieutenat Coppinger's death.
Lieutenant Coppinger was born in OKC. He was graduated from the Bryant grammar school and then went to the Mexico, Mo., Military School. When the Colubus raid of 1916 called for a mobilization of National Guardsment on the Mexican border Lieutenant Coppinger, then a corporal of Troop B., Oklahoma National Guard responded. In his eight months of servie on the border he was promoted to a sergeancy.
Lieutenant Coppinger was enrolled and after receiving his commission was chosen as member of a small group of officers to go to France with the Rainbow Division.
Letters received from him during May and June told of his fighting in the first line trences. The last letter was received early in June.
Another brother Charles Coppinger is in the Army, now being station at Camp Logan, Houston Texas.
Miss Margaret Coppinger is protrated with grief over the death of her brother and is under the care of a physician.
Gravesite Details
Cenotaph, Harry is still buried in France. I believe date on Cenotaph is wrong.
