Maurice George Cooper
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He was the son of Samuel and Annie Cooper and the brother of Albert and Sam Cooper of 51, Edale Road, Sneinton, Nottingham. Mauric eCooper and Mary Joan Bogay married at Nottingham in 1937. She later lived at Stroud Gloucestershire.
TOWER HILL MEMORIAL Panel 32.
SS Cortes
SS Cortes was a British Cargo Steamer of 1,374 tons built in 1919. On the 26th September 1941 when on route from Lisbon for Liverpool in Convoy HG-73 carrying a cargo of potash, cork and a general cargo she was torpedoed by German submarine U-124 and sunk north of the Azores. Except 3, all hands on board Cortes, the master Donald Ray McRae, 30 crew members, including Second Radio Officer Maurice Cooper from Nottingham, 6 gunners and 6 passengers were lost. Some of the survivors of the Cortes were rescued by the Lapwing, only to lose their lives when Lapwing (also part of Convoy HG-73) was torpedoed later on the same day. The lifeboat of Lapwing made landfall in Ireland two weeks later, but two Arab firemen from Cortes had died of exhaustion in the boat and the last survivor, bosun Alfonso Pimentil, died later in a hospital in Clifden. (wrecksite.eu)
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