It is unofficially reported that Private H. B. Cooper, 15th Hussars (whose parents lives at Avon Dassett) was killed on the morning of the 13th of May in a trench near Ypres by a Jack Johnson shell. For some time now his parents have been in suspense as to their son’s fate, as his death had not been officially reported. Private Cooper was formerly employed at the Warwickshire Hunt stables, and enlisted at the start of the war.

Banbury Guardian, July 1915