Career
Educated at Berkhamsted School, Cooper was commissioned into the 53rd (Welsh) Divisional Signals Regiment in 1924 and then transferred to the Royal Tank Corps in 1927. He served in World World War II as Commanding Officer of the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry from October 1941, as a General Staff Officer with IX Corps in North Africa from 1942 and as a Brigadier on the General Staff at Allied Force Headquarters from 1943. His last war-time role was as Commander of 7th Armoured Brigade in Italy from 1945.
He lived at West End House in Donhead Street Andrew in Wiltshire.