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Jon Cooper
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Jon Cooper’s interest in all things military started way back at school when he helped run the wargames club. After completing a merchant navy cadetship with P&O...view moreAbout the Author
Jon Cooper’s interest in all things military started way back at school when he helped run the wargames club. After completing a merchant navy cadetship with P&O he joined the Royal Air Force, ending his short service commission as a Flight Lieutenant.
Jon then settled in Scotland, qualified as a project manager and spent his spare time on the medieval re-enactment circuit for Historic Scotland. He wrote his first book, The Heart and the Rose, based on the research he had carried out on the battle of Linlithgow Bridge, which was fought in his home town in 1526. In 2008 the opportunity arose to take a MLitt in Battlefield and Conflict Archaeology at Glasgow University. He paid his way through the course by writing a second work, Scottish Renaissance Armies, for Osprey Publishing.
In 2009, Jon and his family moved to Singapore. This was his third time in the country, having been there as a Merchant Navy officer and then again on his honeymoon. Not wanting to let his new-found knowledge about battlefield archaeology go to waste, Jon took on the challenge of researching the WWII heritage of Adam Park and has spent seven years pulling together a fascinating insight into Singapore’s wartime past.view less