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GUSTAVE WILFRED COPELAND (1893-1967)
Mr Gustave Wilfred Copeland was the Senior French Master at Plymouth Public Secondary School for Boys and became well known as an antiquarian and archaeologist. He was born in October 1893 and was educated at Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire and at Neuilly, Paris. He became a teacher at Stoke-on-Trent in 1911 and followed this as a teacher in Berkshire, Wiltshire, Bristol and Surrey before coming to Plymouth in 1928. He married in December the following year. In the Great War he had served in the South Staffordshire Regiment and the 2nd Suffolk Regiment. During his time in the City, he was President of the Plymouth Institution from 1947 to 1949; President of the Plymouth Field Club, 1947 to 1950; became Honorary Secretary of the Plymouth Branch of the Devonshire Association and Librarian of the Plymouth Institution in 1941; became Honorary Secretary of the Old Plymouth Society in 1942; and became Honorary Treasurer of the Plymouth French Society in 1946. Mr Copeland died in November 1967. Sources:
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