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Newspaper articles about Ned Cooper


Transcripts from various newspapers about Stockton's Victoria Cross Winner


Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer – Monday 17 September 1917

STOCKTON V.C. WELCOMED HOME

Sergt. Edward Cooper, the Stockton V.C., arrived home on leave on Saturday night. His parents received a wire about 6 p.m. that he had landed in London, and was travelling direct to Stockton. When he arrived about midnight the railway station was besieged by a crowd of several thousands. Cooper’s four sisters and a number of admirers were the first to catch site of him when he alighted from the train, and kisses were showered upon him, and as many as half-a-dozen arms were round his neck at the time. Crowds cheered themselves hoarse as he was carried shoulder high from the station to his home more than a mile distant. At his parents’ house in Portrack he found shelter, nearly an hour after his arrival, but for quite two hours later the people demonstrated in the street, and would not be satisfied until he gave them a speech. In a dozen words he modestly expressed his thanks for the welcome. Interviewed yesterday, Cooper said there was nothing more to be said about what he had done. He saw that if the line had to be saved someone had to take the enemy blockhouse, and he did it. He knew that he ran a chance of being riddled with bullets, but he took his chance, like a good many more lads have done in this war, and it came off all right. The first he knew of his having earned the Victoria Cross was on Saturday afternoon, when waiting for his train at King’s Cross, he went into the Y.M.C.A., and there he accidently read of it in a newspaper.

Sunderland Echo – 14 May 1937

V.C.’s Coronation Medal

Several Coronation Medals have come to Sunderland from Buckingham Palace, and amongst those who received one yesterday was Lieut. Edward Cooper, V.C., whose home is at Fulwell.

Mr Cooper, who is now an employee at Sunderland Co-operative Society, is associated with several ex-servicemen’s organisations in Sunderland. He is a vice president of the Old Contemtibles Association, a member of the Sunderland branch of the British Legion, and also of the local Branch of the Military Medalists’ Association.

Mr Cooper is Sunderland’s only holder of the famous Victoria Cross, an honour he gained at Ypres on 16 August 1917.

Contributed by Fiona Johnson, Durham

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