Collection COOPER, H - COOPER, Brig Henry (1916-1985)

Key Information

Reference code

COOPER, H

Title

COOPER, Brig Henry (1916-1985)

Date(s)

  • 1974 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

1 file

Scope and content

Carbon copy of an account of the British Military Mission to Bulgaria, 1944-1947, written in 1974 for the Defence Attaché at the British Embassy in Bulgaria.

System of arrangement

1 file

General Information

Name of creator

(1916-1985)

Biographical history

Born in 1916; commissioned into the army, 1940; 2nd Lt, Royal Army Pay Corps, 1943; Lt, 1945; member of British Mission to Bulgaria, 1944-1947; Capt, 1946; Maj, 1952; Lt Col, 1955; Commandant, Royal Army Pay Corps Training Centre, 1959; Col, 1960; Command Paymaster, Northern Command, 1962; Army Representative on HM Forces Savings Committee, 1965-1966; Brig, 1966; Chief Paymaster, Far East Land Forces, 1966-1969; Chief Paymaster, British Army of the Rhine, 1969-1970; retired, 1971; died in 1985.

Custodial history

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1986.

Conditions governing access

Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.

Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, via the Archives.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

Finding aids

This collection level description.

Related descriptions

Note

Decorations: MBE

Alternative identifier(s)

Place access points

People and Organisations

Genre access points

Rules and/or conventions used

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.

Script(s)

Accession area