Private Stanley Cooper

Stanley Cooper was born in Leicester, England on 22 February 1925. He was the son of Alice Cooper. Stanley worked in an ammunition factory before he volunteered for the Army, joining the Royal Army Medical Corps.

Stanley volunteered for airborne forces and completed Parachute Course 112 at RAF Ringway in April 1944.  His course report reads:"Excellent pupil, easy to teach, confident"

Attached to the 8th Parachute Battalion, Pte Cooper took part in the Normandy landings and was killed in action on 25 August 1944.

His niece Linda Robinson remembers that

"They were a very close and loving family and when Stanley was killed, my grandmother and the rest of his family, never recovered from his loss and we still miss him to this day.

The shock of recieving the telegram on that terrible day all those years ago stayed with my grandmother for the rest of her life until she died in 1986. He worked with two best friends and sadly they were all killed during the war. By all accounts he was simply a lovely boy with a heart of gold and always a smile on his face."

Pte Stanley Cooper is buried in Ranville War Cemetery.