Adolphe Richard Cooper (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.
Further information about the family can be found in Burke’s Irish Family Records and Debrett’s People of Today - under R. Austin-Cooper
Dick
Cooper was well-known throughout Kent, England,
as a raconteur extraordinaire.
A man who vividly recalled adventures serving with The French Foreign Legion and Special Operations Executive.
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 from a prisoner of war camp at Laghouat, North Africa WW11
Mrs
Pat Hews,
Captain Cooper's Daughter.
This web site
is my own personal tribute to my father
A truly wonderful and very special
Husband, Dad, Granddad, & Great Granddad.
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