Margaret Isobel Cooper
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Margaret Isobel Cooper
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Margaret Isobel Cooper, later known as Peggy Skipwith, was a British military officer who was Chief Officer and deputy director of the Women's Royal Indian Naval Service (WRINS) during the Second World War. Cooper was born in Shillong, British India, and sent to England at the age of five years, returning to India in 1934. In 1941, based in Quetta, she served the Women's Auxiliary Corps (India) (WAC. In 1943 she was appointed Lieutenant Colonel, the regional commander responsible for recruiting
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British naval auxiliary officer (1915–2015)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Isobel_Cooper
date created:
2023-01-10T18:12:19Z
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2024-09-08T17:54:33Z
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