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Bruce Cooper
Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander Bruce Cooper (22 November 1914 – 3 December 2010) was a native of Castle Eden, England. He obtained his medical degree from Durham University. Early in his career, he tended to coalminers and joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. The physician served with distinction in the early period of the Second World War and was mentioned in despatches. In 1941, he was recruited for a highly classified mission, Operation Tracer. In the event that Gibraltar was taken by the Axis powers, he was to be sealed into a secret chamber in the Rock of Gibraltar with five other men for about a year and report the movements of enemy vessels. Over a period of two years, the secret complex was completed and the team assembled and trained. However, the mission was never activated. Cooper returned to England and served in both civilian and military capacities. The location of the secret chamber remained a mystery for decades, but was finally discovered in 1997. However, many questions remained, including the identity of the team members. Upon Cooper's return to Gibraltar in 2008, he confirmed that the cave in question was that which had been destined for himself and his five colleagues. Dr Cooper was the last surviving team member of Operation Tracer in Gibraltar.
==Early life==
William Albert Bruce Cooper was born on 22 November 1914 in Castle Eden, County Durham, England. The son of a physician, he received his education at Henry Smith Grammar School in Hartlepool, County Durham. In 1930, the teenager obtained work on a tramp steamer by prevaricating about his age. Cooper graduated with a medical degree from Durham University in 1938. Before the Second World War, he was a general practitioner in County Durham. There, he not infrequently had to treat the victims of coalmining accidents. In one such case, he had to maneuver half a mile in a tunnel, eventually rescuing a man pinned under a rockfall by amputating his lower extremity.
Cooper entered the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve prior to the onset of the war. His first duty was on , a destroyer based at Plymouth but transferred to Dover. On 13 May 1940, while accompanying the that was conveying Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands to England, the ''Versatile'' was bombed by enemy aircraft and needed to be towed to Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey by the destroyer .〔 Cooper crawled through the lower levels of the vessel to attend the wounded, and was subsequently mentioned in despatches. Not long after the ''Versatile'' was repaired at Sheerness, Cooper treated the survivors of the . The vessel had been disguised as the RFA ''Prunella'', and its survivors had been at sea for almost a week in a lifeboat after the Q-ship had been torpedoed on 21 June 1940 off the island Ushant in the English Channel.〔〔
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