The Topeka Daily State Journal Saturday October 5, 1918 Topeka Boy Killed. Albert Cooper, 193 Wabash Ave., Fatally Wounded Battle of Lens. Another gold star will be added to the Oakland service flag. This time the little star will represent Albert COOPER, son of Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Cooper, 193 Wabash avenue, who has made the extreme sacrifice for his country. A telegram was recently received from the war department by his parents, stating that he died in a hospital in France September 3, after being wounded in the battle of Lens during the latter part of August. He was with the 134th Infantry, Company K. Private Cooper who was but 22 years of age at the time of his death, enlisted on July 4, 1917, at Omaha, Neb., and was sent to Camp Cody, N.M. He arrived in France in July if this year and had been in action but a short time.