COOPER, James Robert
| Service Number: | TX14039 |
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| Enlisted: | 29 March 1943 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 30 December 1923 |
| Home Town: | St Marys , Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, 10 November 2010, aged 86 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Tasmania (Launceston) Garden of Remembrance |
World War 2 Service
| 29 Mar 1943: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, TX14039 | |
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| 12 Aug 1944: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, TX14039 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Signalman James Robert Cooper (Service Nos:TX14039/T21463) enlisted in the Army on 29 March 1943 (at Domain Camp) and was attached to Signals 7 Division when he was Discharged on 12 August 1944.
Born in 1923 in Hobart Tasmania, Jim was the second of six children of Ernest George Cooper (b1876 in Hobart, Tasmania) and second wife Kathleen Mary Wrigley (b1897 in New Norfolk, Tasmania). Ernest worked as a Linesman and served in WWI with 12th Infantry Battalion (Private; Service Nos:213/4960). By 1928 Ernest and Kathleen were living in St Mary's, Tasmania where Ernest was a Linesman.
Jim worked as a Clerk and in 1948 in Scottsdale, Tasmania he married Sylvia May Heazlewood (b1928 in Ulverstone, Tasmania). Jim and Sylvia settled in Launceston where Jim worked as a Clerk, Storeman and Fire Brigade Serviceman. Sylvia died in 2003 and Jim in 2010.
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