Major-General Edward Joshua Cooper CB, DSO, MVO (21 April 1858 – 8 March 1945) was a senior British Army officer.
Educated at Marlborough College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Cooper was commissioned into the 99th (Lanarkshire) Regiment of Foot on 11 September 1876.
[1] He saw action during the Relief of Ladysmith in 1900 in the Second Boer War and the British expedition to Tibet in 1904.
[4] After that he became General Officer Commanding 58th (2/1st London) Division in 1915 before being placed on half-pay and reverting to his substantive rank in September 1916[5] before briefly being promoted once again to temporary brigadier general and commanding a brigade[6] and retiring in 1918.
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