Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Corporal R. Cooper, Green Jackets

General Service 1918-62, 2 clasps, Malaya, Cyprus, G.VI.R. (14185784 Pte., K.O.Y.L.I.); General Service 1962, 2 clasps, Borneo, Malay Peninsula (23664433 Cpl., 1 Green Jackets) good very fine and better (lot) £300-350

Richard ‘Gin’ Cooper was born on 18 July 1928 and educated at Boldon Colliery Boys’ Intermediate School, Co. Durham. A Builder’s Labourer by occupation, he enlisted into the General Service Corps on 21 January 1946. He served variously with the Durham Light Infantry, King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, being discharged in January 1958. He re-enlisted into the Royal Green Jackets on 16 July 1959. A specialist in anti-tank gunnery, he was discharged on the reduction of the establishment on 31 March 1969. Cooper then joined the recruiting staff at the High Wycombe Army Information Office.

Sold with Boldon Colliery School letter of Recommendation, 17 July 1942; Regular Army Notice Paper, 1946; Regular Army Certificate of Service (2) 1946-58 & 1959-69; Soldier’s Record and Pay Book 1946-58; Record of Service Card 1946-58; Permanent Passes (2); Medical Inspection Reports (20 British Forces Military Train Duty Ticket, Berlin-Hannover, January 1967; photographs of Cypriot terrorists wanted printed on newspaper - with inked amendments ‘killed’, ‘arrested’ etc.; photographs of the recipient and related military subjects; together with sundry other papers and cuttings. Also with two official identity disks and an unofficial identity disk, and six cap badges and two cloth badges.