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Edward Copley
Edward Copley
Private
F/87982
Algonquin Regiment, R.C.I.C.
May 20, 1921
Inverness, Inverness Co., NS
June 1941
Inverness, NS
Inverness, NS
19
5 feet, 10 inches
Fair
Dark Brown
Single
Labourer
Roman Catholic
Isaac Copley (Father) Inverness, NS
August 15, 1944
21
Bretteville-sur Laize Canadian War Cemetery
XXV. G. 2.
Commemorated on page 279 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance
Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on June 16
One of ten children, Edward Copley was the son of Isaac Copley and Catherine MacKinnon Copley of
Inverness, Inverness Co., NS. His brother John Charles Copley also served during WWII.
Having trained in Canada he went overseas, arriving in England on May 22, 1943. He disembarked in
France on July 26, 1944. On August 15, 1944
while serving with the Algonquin Regiment,
R.C.I.C. he was killed in action. The village of
Potigny in north west of France was liberated on
August 15 and he was initially buried Potigny.
Private Copley was reburied in the Bretteville-sur
Laize Canadian War Cemetery in 1946.
