Description
World War I Casualty, Memorial Plaquette, Captain Charles Miller Couper, "D" Coy, 4th Bn., Black Watch (Royal Highlanders), in card folder with letter; sold with his cap badge and hackle, Soldier's New Testament, Pince-nez, family (?) photographs, letter from an aunt, and plated cigarette case (with 2 cigarettes), contained in a card box from which his personal effects were returned by the German Government by way of the American Embassy (War Office list and letter [27/31917] relate). T he plaque as issued, an emotive lot.
Miller was killed in the battle of Loos, on the 28th September, 1915 and is buried in the Rue-David Military Cemetery, Fleurbaix. The 4th, a Territorial Battalion raised in Dundee, landed in France in March, 1915 and fought at Neuve Chapelle with the 5th Battalion.
