Lindsay Freestun COOPER

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COOPER, Lindsay Freestun

Service Number:	16324
Enlisted:	27 April 1940
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	Aircraft / Repair / Salvage Depots
Born:	Jamestown, South Australia, 19 July 1911
Home Town:	Caron, Perenjori, Western Australia
Schooling:	Walshpool Primary School, South Australia
Occupation:	Farmer
Died:	Victoria, Australia, 10 October 2003, aged 92 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
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World War 2 Service

27 Apr 1940:	Involvement Sergeant, 16324, Aircraft / Repair / Salvage Depots
27 Apr 1940:	Enlisted Perth, WA
27 Apr 1940:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 16324
12 Nov 1945:	Discharged

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Sergeant Lindsay Freestun Cooper (Service No:16324) enlisted in the RAAF on 27 April 1940 at No 4 Recruiting Centre Perth and was posted as an Aircraftman I to No 1 Recruit Depot Station Laverton - mustered as Fitter. In 1941 he was promoted to Leading Aircraftman and then to Corporal - attached to Nos 1 and 6 Service Flying Training Schools (SFTS), 70 Reserve Squadron, No 8 Communication Unit, and No 1 Reserve Personnel Pool. Sergeant Cooper served in the SWP from 25 December 1943 to 22 February 1945 and was attached to 1 Aircraft Depot at Discharge on 12 November 1945.

The eldest of six children, Lindsay was born in Jamestown, South Australia in 1911 to Albert Matthew Cooper (b1883 in Tarcowie, South Australia) and Katie Susannah Williams (b1887 in Belalle, South Australia). Albert (a Farmer) and Katie married in 1910 in Norwood, South Australia and settled in Jamestown where they raised their family and Albert was a Farmer. In the late 1920s the family moved to Caron via Perenjori, Western Australia where they settled and Albert was a Farmer before retirnig to Perth in the late 1940s.

Lindsay worked in Caron via Pernjori with his father as a Farm Hand and Farmer prior to his enlistment in the RAAF. He was described in a reference for enlistment (E Byrne, 1940; NAA) 'He is considered by all who know him as being a first class farmer and is particularly good with all classes of motor power engines and machinery'. In Melbourne in 1943, Lindsay married Dorothy Alison Gilmore (b1919 in Melbourne, Victoria) - Dorothy was working in Melbourne as a Clerk. Following his Discharge, Lindsay and Dorothy settled in Melbourne where they raised their family and Lindsay worked as a Public Servant with the Post Master General's Department (Linesman and Technician). Dorothy died in 1991 in Frankston, and Lindsay died in 2003.

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