On behalf of my late father Edward Cooper and my late Grandfather Edward Cooper and in memory of my Great grandfather Peter Cooper, one of the most endearing memories of my childhood was a road trip with my parents and grandparents undertaken in 1967 to visit the war grave in the former Yugoslavia of my great grandfather Peter Cooper, which took my father 2 years of research with the war graves commission to locate my Great grandfathers grave in Skopje now Macedonia, he died on 22nd December 1918, 6 weeks after the first world war ended from typhoid, The last time my Grandfather saw his father was in 1915 when his father left to fight, when he was 10 years old. The return journey of our trip took us to Germany to stay with my mothers family. It'`s the common man who bleeds and dies for the love of his country, not the warmonger or politician RIP.

Gary Cooper