War years remembered |

IN HONOUR of Remembrance Day, J
have chosen to write about a war time
story this week.

Don Cooper was one of many from
the north who served Canada bravely
during the Second World War.

Don was born on August 7, 1921 in
Hazelton, and was one of four sons.
The Cooper family lived in Telkwa,
and moved to Terrace in 1927,

Don was educated at the old Kalum
School, When he finished school he
went to Prince Rupert in 1949 to work
‘in the shipyards,

When the Second World War began,
‘Don joined the infantry, After nearly a
year of training, Don was sent abroad,
‘sailing on the Empress of Scotland. It
was an old CP ship, carrying 12,000
men on its five decks, The crossing
took six days.

Upon arrival in England, the men
were sent to Aldershot, south of

‘ London, to old calvary barracks with
concrete ‘flours, wooden bunks, and
-Sttaw. mattresses. That was. what
20,000 troops called home fora time.

Don was posted to to the Sth-Brigade,
2nd. Division’: the Calgary
Highlanders,

Here they trained in artillery and
anti-aircraft guns. The brigade was
‘then sent to Brighton for more train-
ing in advanced fighting techniques
and the handling of different guns.

Don. took part in rifle range shoot-
ing, and practices with 4 variety of
machine guns and became a first class
shot with the rifle and the bren gun.

Don was then assigned to the bren -

gun carrier, which took three other
men to run. It was-on tracks and
moved very fast. The carrier was
open, so there was no protection from
shelling.

After Italy joined the war in 1943,
Don was posted with a division train-
‘ing on the northwest coast of Scat-
land. Here he went through assault
boat training.

In April, 1944, Don’s division went
.into Dover, From here they heard the

guns on D-Day. Then on the first
week of July, 1944, Don and the 2nd
Division went into action in Caen,
Normandy,

Because the troops - couldn’t get
through Caen, the RAF. and the
R.C.A.F, flew a daylight raid and flat-
tened Caen by bombers. -

Ey the time the Normandy

campaign etided, Don had been
wounded three times. The first time
was on July 28, 1944, when he was
. shot in the right arm outside of Caen
in the Tilly campaign.

Don Cooper in May, 1946
The second time was in Holland, He
was shot in the back with shrapnel and
was in the hospital in Tillburrgh for
three weeks, Then he joined his divi-
sion again in Brussels, :

From there they went to. Nijmegen,
near the German border, for six
weeks. They were stationed un-

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derground on a ridge, The weather
was very cold, and the men wore
while camouflage to blend in with the
snow. Their rations were powdered
eggs, powdered milk, coffee for
breakfast, no lunch and stew and tea
for supper. For fear of being seen,
they couldn’t have a fire,

While here Don received his third
injury — shrapnel in his knee,

After this injury Don’ was trans-
ferred into the service corps, a posting
he kept until the end of the war. He
retumed to England in March, 1946,

and from there sailed back to Canada.

Don arrived back in Terrace at ‘the
end of March that year to enjoy a one

month leave, He had to return to Van- |

couyer to finish his tour of duty, and
was discharged in October, 1946,-

After army life, Don chose a career
in forestry, working first as a ranger,
and then as a scaler for Columbia Cel-
lulose for 19 years, until he retired.

I'd like to say thanks to Don Cooper
for taking time to share some of his
war years. He was one of the lucky
ones, because he returned safely.

So on November 11, Remembrance
Day, take time to remember the men
and women who gave their service
and sometimes their lives for Canada.

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