Major General Kenneth Christie Cooper, CB, DSO, OBE (18 October 1905 – 4 September 1981) was a senior British Army officer who commanded the 7th Armoured Division from 1953 to 1956.
[1] Educated at Berkhamsted School, Cooper was commissioned into the 53rd (Welsh) Divisional Signals Regiment in 1924.
[3] Cooper served in the Second World War as commanding officer of the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry from October 1941, as a General Staff Officer with IX Corps in North Africa from 1942 and as a Brigadier on the General Staff at Allied Force Headquarters from 1943.
[4] He went on to be General Officer Commanding 7th Armoured Division in 1953 and chief of staff Allied Forces Northern Europe in 1956, before retiring in 1959.
[6] Cooper lived at West End House in Donhead St Andrew in Wiltshire.