Bertie Cooper


Bertie Frederick Cooper was an Australian rules footballer who played 83 games for the South Fremantle Football Club in the West Australian Football League between 1910 and 1915, captaining the team in 1913 and 1915.
Cooper was baptised 3 April 1892 in Fremantle, Western Australia, the son of George and Emma Cooper. In 1915, Cooper joined the 16th Battalion of the Australian Imperial Force and was killed on 31 August 1916 during the Battle of Mouquet Farm in Pozières, France. He is honoured at the Australian National Memorial in Villers-Bretonneux Cemetery.