Down Memory Lane with Johnny Cooper - SAS
Graeme Cooper SpeakerNet Sponsor
- Regions:
- Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Essex, London
- Notice Period:
- Emergency (maybe less than one week's notice)
- Type:
- Hobby & Charity
- Fee:
- Free: 50 p per mile to and from the Event location
- Category:
- History
- Updated:
- 26th October 2024
- Tagged:
- Sas Johnny Cooper
‘Down Memory Lane’ with Johnny Cooper SAS ‘One of the Originals’
The exploits of the Special Air Service Regiment in World War II are legendary and full of intrigue and fame. Eighteen-year-old Johnny Cooper volunteered for the SAS in 1941 and became one of “The Originals" raised by David Stirling to conduct operations behind enemy lines. Johnny took part in various raids in North Africa; collaborated with the Maquis in France and helped liberate Belsen with its horrific secret behind the wire. The SAS final mission of the war came in the summer of 1945 in Norway when they disarmed a German garrison days after the war had officially ended. Johnny paraded at Hylands House in 1945 on the day the Regiment was disbanded.
Johnny led anti-guerrilla jungle operations during the Malayan emergency where he pioneered tree jumping. His further combat experiences on the Jebel Akhdar in Oman, in Africa and in the ‘secret war’ in the Yemen make up a fascinating career.
This pictorial presentation by his son Graeme tells his incredible life story.
Ticket Sales are spilt between a local cause nominated by the Event applicant and the Veterans of the SAS Association following a the Presenter's Travel costs of 50p per mile to and from the Event location.
Views: 184 | Enquiries: 2About Graeme Cooper
Graeme Cooper has been battlefield guiding since 1995 and owns Cooper's Waterloo Tours, a family run business specialising in tailored tours of the Napoleonic Campaign battlefields of the Peninsular War and Waterloo for adults, and leadership training for the military.
A Fellow of the International Napoleonic Society (FINS), Graeme qualified as a Waterloo Campaign Guide with Les Guides 1815 in 1998. Graeme's interest in the Napoleonic Campaigns was sparked during his time as a cadet at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst by his tutors, the late and renowned military historians and authors, Professor Richard Holmes and Dr David Chandler.
This intrigue in the Napoleonic Wars, kept alive by a military career, has maintained his fascination in military history and a strong concern for the preservation of the Waterloo battlefield, which he first visited in 1973.
In November 2002, Graeme founded The International Guild of Battlefield Guides and was the Secretary until November 2009 when he became the first member to be elected to the Roll of Honour for his services to the Guild.
In May 2006 he formed Corporate Battlefields Ltd, a leadership training company for corporate management and has since delivered leadership learning to senior management teams from eBay, Boeing UK, Lilly, Brother, UPS, UK, HSBC and NATO’s Secretary General on battlefields including Waterloo, Isandlwana, Ypres, Somme, the Normandy D-Day Beaches and Naseby.
Graeme is married and has a son and daughter both of whom were commissioned through Sandhurst. Graeme lives in Essex and enjoys golf, photography, chess and telemark skiing.
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