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Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London

COOPER, Brig Henry (1916-1985)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Cooper H

Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London

Title: COOPER, Brig Henry (1916-1985)

Date(s): Created 1974

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s): Cooper | Henry | 1916-1985 | Brigadier

CONTEXT

Administrative/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.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

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.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

1 file

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Summary guide available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1986.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Decorations: MBE

Date(s) of descriptions: Aug 1996


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Military missions | Diplomacy | Foreign relations | International relations

Personal names
Cooper | Henry | 1916-1985 | Brigadier

Corporate names

Places
Bulgaria | Eastern Europe