Captain Derek Percie COOPER (117190)
Royal Artillery attached to Headquarters, 1st Airborne Division

Date of birth: 31st May 1919
Date of death: 24th December 1942

Killed on active service aged 23
Buried at Camberwell New Cemetery Square 78 Grave 3693
Derek Joseph Percie Cooper was born in London on the 31st of May 1919 the only son of Lieutenant Colonel Percie Cyril Cooper, Honourable Artillery Company, a wholesale printer, and Ida Ellen (nee Wiskar) Cooper of 104 College Road, Dulwich in South London.

He was educated at Lancing College where he was in Olds House from September 1932 to July 1936 and where he was a member of the Tennis Team in 1936.

On leaving school he went to work for Alfred H. Cooper and Sons of Moorgate and lived in South East London.

Following the outbreak of war he enlisted as a Gunner in the Royal Artillery and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant on the 20th of January 1940.

His funeral was held at St Stephen’s Church, College Road in Dulwich on the 30th of December 1942.

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