Studio portrait of SX9699 Private (Pte) Frederick William Cooper 2/2 Reserve Motor Transport ...

Accession Number	P08170.001
Collection type	Photograph
Object type	Digital file
Maker	Unknown
Date made	c 1940
Conflict	Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright	Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Studio portrait of SX9699 Private (Pte) Frederick William Cooper 2/2 Reserve Motor Transport Company, of Kadina, SA. Pte Cooper enlisted in July 1940 and became a prisoner of war following the fall of Singapore in February 1942. Pte Cooper and 1158 other prisoners were being transported to Japan on board the Rakuyo Maru when it was was sunk by the submarine USS Sea Lion on 12 September 1944. Pte Cooper died at sea on 14 September 1944. He was 23 years of age.