CANADIAN PARA Cooper, Dennis Akroyd

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Cooper ​

• FORENAME

Dennis Akroyd ​

• UNIT

Army Physical Training Corps (British),attached ​

• RANK

Warrant Officer Second Class (CSM) ​

• NUMBER

54748 ​

• DATE OF DEATH

27th March 1945 ​

• AGE

28 ​

• GRAVESITE

Holten Canadian War Cemetery, Netherlands IV.F.9 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

son of Dennis and Annie Cooper​

husband of Florence Laura Cooper, Beltinge, Kent, England​

KIA Germany ​

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Unit started to advance at 0530 hrs, no breakfast was served. No enemy resistance was met until unit arrived at MR 304471 at 0945 hrs. The mortar and Vickers pls set up weapons and fired on the enemy in the woods. Arty fire was also brought down on the enemy. At approx 1100 hrs a squadron of tanks and armoured cars arrived. Enemy resistance disappeared soon afterwards. 18 PW were taken. CSMI Cooper was seriously wounded and died of his wound. Advance continued and objective taken at 1315 hrs. Coys took up defensive positions. During the night unit personnel slept in barns and houses in the vicinity of objective at MR 315478.​