WWI · Battle Death Record
John Coppage
Private, U.S. Army · Georgia
Personnel File — Core Information
- Name
- John Coppage
- Entered the Service From
- Georgia
- Rank
- Private
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Unit / Regiment
- Coast Artillery Corps
- War
- WWI
- Date of Death
- October 6, 1918
- Burial / Memorial
- Brookwood American Cemetery and Memorial, Brookwood, England
- Grave
- Plot A, Row 3, Grave 12
Their story
Private John Guy Coppage of Cecil/Hahira, Georgia, entered the U.S. Army in July 1918 and served in the Coast Artillery Corps. He died on October 6, 1918, when the troopship HMS Otranto, carrying him and other South Georgia soldiers, collided with another vessel and sank off the Isle of Islay, Scotland. He is buried at Brookwood American Cemetery in England.
Compiled from American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) and National Archives (NARA) records and public sources.
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