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Len Coupland the son of William Coupland and his wife Ann (nee Stamp). He was born on 2 Aug 1888, his father was a flour dealer and shopkeeper and subsequently also a lodging house keeper.
Len was the youngest child of six children. He was educated at St Mary's Boys School, in 1900 he transferred to Beverley Wesleyan School, completing his education at age 14 in 1902. By 1911 Len had moved to Leeds and was working as a tailor. In that year he married Olive Cornick, the daughter of Samuel Cornick, a plumber, glazier and gasfitter, and his wife Anne. Len and Olive lived at 17, Rosebank Row, Leeds. They had a son, William Leonard, born in 1911.
Len's Medal Card tells us he was in the Royal engineers and he was awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.
In 1939 Len and Olive Coupland were living at 13 Marlborough Grove, Leeds and he was working as a tailor. They later moved to East Yorkshire. Olive died in 1961 in Beverley, Len died age 95 in 1983.
Their son served in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps during the Second World War. He was killed in action in the Middle East on 3 Nov 1940 and is buried in the Cairo War Memorial Cemetery. He married Serena Hollingworth of Leeds in 1935, they had two daughters Sylvia, born in 1936 and Patricia O, born in 1938.
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