assistant steward at a golf club and thereafter in various sundry appointments. He retired in 1962 having worked at the Ministry of National Insurance since 1946. He was married and had two daughters. During retirement Coppard sought and received encouragement from the Imperial War Museum to have his wartime diaries published. Published in 1969, With a Machine Gun to Cambrai proved an instant success, prompting his contemporaries to publish their own wartime accounts. References External links Coppard's page on FirstWorldWar.com Coppard's page on Spartacus Educational 1898 births 1985 deaths Queen's Royal Regiment soldiers British Army personnel of World War I Recipients of the Military Medal British memoirists People from Brighton Taxidermists 20th-century memoirists Machine Gun Corps soldiers Military personnel from Sussex