COOPER, Samuel
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Rank:
Troop Sergeant Major
Unit / Base:
46RM Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Marines
Service:
Royal Navy
Number:
PO/X 105978
Honours & Awards:
Born:
Saturday, October 15, 1921
Birthplace:
Newcastle upon Tyne
Operations:
Sergeant Samuel Cooper was awarded the Military Medal for gallant and distinguished service while operating with the Army during the successful landings in Normandy [1][2].
Recommendation
"After the bulk of the Officers and S.N.C.O.'s in his troop had been killed in the initial assault this Sgt took a leading part in directing street fighting operations within his troop. Later on he led a courageous assault onto a strong enemy MG position in the open fields on the SW side of the town." [Recommended by Lt Col. C.R. Hardy, Comd. 46RM Commando] [2].
- Samuel Cooper was educated at St Lawrence's Roman Catholic School, Newcastle upon Tyne, after which he was an apprentice butcher at the Newcastle Co-operative Butchering Department in Walbeck Road [3][3a].
Sources
[1] London Gazette 36676, page 4008.
[2] National Archives file WO373/47/14.
[3] The 1939 Register covering Newcastle upon Tyne.
[3a][Image] Report in the Newcastle Evening Chronicle 01 September 1944.
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