Rosina Sarah Cooper was born on 4 March 1906, a daughter of William Henry Cooper and Sarah Ann Cooper née Hutchins (1872-1940) whose birth was registered in the 2nd quarter of 1906 in the Southwark registration district.
In the 1911 census she is shown as living at 24 Loman Street, Gravel Lane, Southwark, with her parents and her sister Lilian Rose Cooper (1903-1976). Also on the census were recorded her half-brother Robert John Cooper and half-sister Alice Eliza Cooper from her father's previous wife who had died. Her father's occupation was shown as a coal porter.
In the 1939 England and Wales Register she is shown as a machinist - dresses, living at 136B Union Street, Southwark, with her widowed mother.
She died, aged 34 years, on 10 September 1940, as a result of enemy action when a bomb fell on the Ewer Street air raid shelter. Amongst the others killed were her mother and her niece Joan Rosemary Lillian Bentley (1927-1940). She was on 19 September 1940 in Square 28, Grave 40399 at , Linden Grove, London, SE15 3LP.
Her name is recorded in that is kept just outside the entrance to St George's Chapel at the west end of Westminster Abbey. In this she is shown as living at 136B Union Street Flats, Union Street, Southwark, but it incorrectly gives her age as 33 years, as does the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's . She is also recorded on the and is shown as Rose Cooper on the .
Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.
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