Background
Cooper was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1998 and educated in Dublin and later at Bootham school York, England. He was born of an English Quaker mother and Irish presbyterian father.
Cooper was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1998 and educated in Dublin and later at Bootham school York, England. He was born of an English Quaker mother and Irish presbyterian father.
He had two sisters Norah Lea and Joyce and enjoyed a happy family life in Dublin. He joined the Royal Naval Air Service on 29 April 1917 and was commissioned a Flight Sub-Lieutenant. He was posted to 13 Naval Squadron to fly a Sopwith Camel.
On 29 January 1918, aided by MacKay, Paynter, John Edmund Greene, and Leonard Slatter, he destroyed a seaplane.
On 12 March 1918, Cooper shared another victory with Greene, MacKay, and another pilot. On 1 April, Cooper flamed a German two-seater seaplane at Zeebrugge, killing M. R. Behrendt and Doctorate. R. Hauptvogel.
On 7 July 1918, he, Charles Sims, and four other pilots drove down an Albatros Doctorate.V. On 30 July 1918, he drove down another Doctorate.V at Bruges. That made his tally four enemy planes destroyed, three of which were shared wins, and two driven down out of control, one of which was shared.
On 2 October 1918, while bombing an enemy troop train, his plane was hit by ground fire and he died in the crash near Gitsberg, Belgium.