Captain Dick Cooper

<body topmargin="0" leftmargin="1"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#FFFFFF">Adolphe Richard Cooper<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>(Dick Cooper) was descended from an Anglo Irish family who had left their farm in Byfleet, Surrey in 1661 to settle in County Wicklow, Ireland.</font> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#FFFFFF">Further information about the family can be found in Burke’s Irish Records and Debrett’s People of Today.</font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><font size="3" face="Verdana" color="#FFFFFF"><span lang="EN-GB">Dick Cooper was well-known throughout Kent, England,<br> as a raconteur extraordinaire.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><font size="3" face="Verdana" color="#FFFFFF"><span lang="EN-GB">A man who vividly recalled adventures serving with The French Foreign Legion and Special Operations Executive.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><font size="3" face="Verdana" color="#FFFFFF"><span lang="EN-GB">Service that included the heroism of this Legionnaire and the subsequent winning of the Croix de Guerre at Gallipoli/Dardanelles WW1 and the incarceration and subsequent escape<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>from a prisoner of war camp at Laghouat, North Africa WW11</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#FFFFFF">Mrs Pat Hews,<br> Captain Cooper's Daughter.</font></span></p> <p align="center"><font face="Verdana" color="#FFFFFF"><img border="0" src="images/Pat.jpg" width="216" height="162"></font></p> <p align="center"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#FFFFFF">This web site is my own personal tribute to my father<br> A truly wonderful and very special<br> Husband, Dad, Granddad, & Great Granddad.</font></span></p> </body>