Diana de Vere JULIUS [813]

  General Notes:

Diana worked during the War for MI5, possibly as a shorthand-typist. At the beginning of the war her office was in West London, near to Wormwood Scrubs Prison. Her office was then evacuated to avoid bombing, and moved to Blenheim Palace, near Oxford. Diana was billeted on Molly Cooper, a widow living at Dun's Tew, a village near Oxford. She was probably there when Arthur Cooper, the son, returned from Australia. Arthur and Diana were married in 1943/44?. They later returned to Australia for a period.
In 1950, Arthur's son Edward, then aged 5, remembers a long summer's leave from Australia where they stayed in Bosham, near Chichester, Sussex. The house was named "Aisacre" and belonged to his mother's "guardian" 'Yorkie'. Diana had a guardian as a child because she was being educated in England while her parents lived abroad, in India and Malaya. Edward recalls from his mothers comments that Yorkie seemed more of a mother to Diana than Maude/Julia.

Diana, on the 6 Sep 1935, sailed from London to Bombay on the Moldavia. Her address was recorded as 22 Cadogan Gardens SW3.
Ref: Findmypast.co.uk

Arthur R V Cooper
Date of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep 1943
Registration district: North Buckinghamshire
Inferred County: Buckinghamshire
Spouse: Diana De V Julius
Volume Number: 3a
Page Number: 3561


Death Notice Times 2002:
Cooper - Diana passed away peacefully in hospital, Jan 11th (2002) aged 88yrs. Beloved wife of the late Arthur Cooper. Dear mother of Edward and a much loved grandmother. Funeral service at St James the Great Church Cranham, Gloucestershire, on Wed Jan 23rd at 11.15 am. Flowers may be sent to W S Trenhaile, Funeral Directors, 174 Bath Rd Cheltenham. 01242-224897

  Research Notes:

1913 - Q3 2b 594 1936 - 3 April arrived in London on the Moldavia, Peninsula and Orient Steam Navigation Company Ltd. Ports of voyage - Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart, Adelaide, Fremantle, Colombo, Bombay, Port Sudan, Port Said and Marseilles. Proposed address, 46 Park Mansions, Kensington SW1
Ref Janine Dixon-Wikinson Genes United

Diana married Arthur Richard Valentine COOPER [2421] [MRIN: 794], son of Richard Edward Synge COOPER [7605] and Mary Ellenor BURKE [7606], 3 Qtr 1943 in Buckinghamshire. (Arthur Richard Valentine COOPER [2421] was born on 17 Feb 1916 and died in 1987.)