Ronald Simmons COOPER

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COOPER, Ronald Simmons

Service Number:	VX58497
Enlisted:	11 July 1941, Royal Park, Vic.
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/4th Anti Tank aka Tank Attack Regiment
Born:	Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 9 October 1919
Home Town:	Hobart, Tasmania
Schooling:	Lansdowne Crescent and Princes Street Schools, Hobart High School
Occupation:	Clerk
Died:	Accidental, Japan, 10 September 1945, aged 25 years
Cemetery:	Sai Wan War Cemetery, Hong Kong Plot VI. Row A. Grave 5.
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Gunner, VX58497
11 Jul 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX58497, 2nd/4th Anti Tank aka Tank Attack Regiment, Royal Park, Vic.

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Andrew Dresser Cooper and Madge Eileen Cooper, of Gardenvale, Victoria, Australia.

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Captain and Mrs. A.D. Cooper, of Gardenvale, Victoria, formerly of Hobart, have received advice from the Army that their son, Bdr. Roanld simmons Cooper, who was recovered in Japan after 3 1/2 years in enemy hands, was a passenger in an aircraft believed to have been lost on its homeward journey between Japan and Luzon on September 10. His age was 26 years.

A member of the 4th Anti-Tank Regiment, A.I.F. , Ron embarked for overseas in 1941. He fought in the Malayan campaign and displayed conspicuous gallantry at Singapore, and was informed by an English officer (who was subsequently killed in action) of a proposed recommendation for the bravery. Piror to and early in the war, Ron served with the 106th Field Regiment, also with the Railway Transport Unit.

He was educated at Hobart High School, and earlier attended the Lansdowne Crescent and Princes Street schools. He displayed much prowess in sport, and was a popular playing member of the High School and South East football teams, and also the Nomads Cricket Club. He was also interested in skating and motoring. In his early childhood, he was a choir boy at St. John's Church, Goulburn Street, West Hobart.

Prior to enlistment he was a member of the staff of J. Kitchen & Sons Pty. Ltd., Hobart. His eldest brother, Kevan was killed in New Guinea in 1943. Another brother, Eric, ex-POW (at present in Heidelberg Military Hospital), recently returned from Thailand, where he worked on the ill-fated railway.

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