Albert Ross COOPER

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COOPER, Albert Ross

Service Number:	81361
Enlisted:	8 July 1942
Last Rank:	Aircraftman
Last Unit:	No. 4 School of Technical Training Adelaide
Born:	Jamestown, South Australia, 1 September 1920
Home Town:	Caron, Perenjori, Western Australia
Schooling:	Caron Primary School, Western Australia
Occupation:	Sharefarmer
Died:	Illness, 101st Australian General Hospital, Northfield, South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, 3 September 1942, aged 22 years
Cemetery:	Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia Plot A. Row D. Grave 6.
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

World War 2 Service

8 Jul 1942:	Involvement 81361
8 Jul 1942:	Enlisted Perth, WA
8 Jul 1942:	Enlisted 81361
11 Aug 1942:	Transferred Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman, No. 4 School of Technical Training Adelaide

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Biography contributed by David Barlow

Son of Albert Matthew and Katie Susannah Cooper of Caron, Western Australia

Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Aircraftman I Albert Ross Cooper (Service No:81361) enlisted in the RAAF on 8 July 1942 at No 4 Recruiting Centre Perth. He had applied in April, but his call-up was delayed following a written request from his father because 'I particularly require his help to get the seeding done, and as soon as this is completed, I am agreeable to release him of his duties on the farm ...' (A M Cooper Caron 13th April 1942; NAA). ACI Cooper was posted to No 4 School of Technical Training (STT) Adelaide where he contracted Measles, then pneumonia. ACI Cooper died of illness on 3 September 1942.

Fifth of six children, Albert was born in Jamestown, South Australia in 1920 to Albert Matthew Cooper (b1883 in Tarcowie, South Australia) and Katie Susannah Williams (b1887 in Belalie, South Australia). Albert Snr (a Farmer) and Katie married in Norwood, South Australia in 1910 and settled in Jamestown where Albert Snr was a Farmer. The children attended Washpool Primary School, and in the late 1920s the family moved to Caron via Perenjori in Western Australia. Albert Snr was a Farmer, assisted by his two sons until both enlisted in the RAAF, and retired to Perth in the late 1940s.

With his siblings, Albert attended Washpool Primary School in South Australia and Caron Primary School in Western Australia before working as a Farm Hand - and later Sharefarmer - with his father on the family property.

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