Researching Geoffrey Cooper
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The name Geoffrey means "heavenly place" and is of English origin.
Records of Geoffrey Cooper on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Geoffrey Cooper and the Cooper Family History
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Geoffrey Cooper (politician)
Geoffrey Cooper (18 February 1907 – 10 April 1995) was a British farmer, architect, politician and writer.
Educated at Wyggeston Grammar School in Leicester and the Royal Grammar School in Worcester, Cooper joined the Auxiliary Air Force in 1933. He served as a pilot with the Royal Air Force during World War II, initially with Fighter Command, then after a period with the British Overseas Airways Corporation, he returned to action in the Coastal Command, leaving the force as a wing commander.
Cooper was elected as the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Middlesbrough West in 1945. On the train back to London, he happened to travel from Darlington with James Chuter Ede, who was shortly to become Home Secretary. Ede found Cooper to be "a very bright intelligent man … if all our Service members are like him we have secured a great improvement’ in Labour MPs".
In 1951, Cooper stood down from Parliament. He later emigrated to the Bahamas, where he became the president of a development company.
Source: Geoffrey Cooper (politician), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaGeoffrey Cooper (RAF officer)
Geoffrey Strickland Cooper OBE (25 October 1925 – 13 December 2014) was a Royal Air Force officer of the post-Second World War era who as a fighter pilot saw action in the Middle East and Malaya.
In early 1948, Cooper was stationed at Ramat David in Palestine with 208 Squadron when his base came under attack from a Spitfire of the Egyptian Air Force, destroying two British Spitfires on the ground. Just hours later an Egyptian patrol of three more Spitfires attacked again. In the subsequent fight, Cooper shot down one Spitfire, damaged another which a colleague then shot down, and a third was destroyed from the ground.
In January 1949, while on patrol, Cooper was involved in a fight with Spitfires of the Israeli Air Force and forced to bail out inside Egyptian territory. He was found by Bedouin tribesmen and returned to his base.
In 1956, Cooper was involved in actions against communist insurgents in Malaya.
Cooper retired from the RAF in 1978 as an Air Commodore. He then worked as the air correspondent of the Daily Telegraph.
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