https://www.marlyscottage.nz/memories daily 0.75 2026-01-22 https://www.marlyscottage.nz/memories/swooper-cooper-and-the-tasman-rd-bombing monthly 0.5 2026-01-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6476a45b1e3fe21368fc7bf6/c8934027-a113-4b55-a921-a0637b03f01a/Aircraft+over+Marly%27s+Cottage Memories - Swooper Cooper and the Tasman Rd Bombing - Make it stand out NAC plane pictured flying low over 44 Tasman Rd https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6476a45b1e3fe21368fc7bf6/f0accd43-957b-4a22-a944-58236af13ce1/arthur-ashtray.jpg Memories - Swooper Cooper and the Tasman Rd Bombing - Make it stand out A popular photo of Arthur, taken by his brother in law, Brian Casey who was also well endowed with a warped sense of humour. https://www.marlyscottage.nz/memories/the-great-strike monthly 0.5 2025-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6476a45b1e3fe21368fc7bf6/1739330274839-W5GEQD3FBT2BB548V93F/1992-xmas-nick-arthur-cream-2.jpg Memories - The Great Strike! - Make it stand out Arthur on the right in subsequent years, clowning around with his younger brother Nick at an outside dinner table. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6476a45b1e3fe21368fc7bf6/1be42234-e67d-4db1-ad29-67b69d82a70e/nick-arthur-food-clowning-around.jpg Memories - The Great Strike! - Make it stand out Cooper brothers, Nick and Arthur still clowning around at the outdoors dinner table at Otaki. No wonder they weren’t allowed inside to eat! Note: Arthur would have been about 12 years of age at the time of offending. https://www.marlyscottage.nz/memories/declaration-of-defeat monthly 0.5 2025-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6476a45b1e3fe21368fc7bf6/1739513053179-LJZ9HQTLXWIF5RQXL9OY/david-on-car-declation-of-defeat.JPG Memories - Declaration of Defeat - Make it stand out David in superb water fighting form! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6476a45b1e3fe21368fc7bf6/2882c74a-34b2-450d-a260-7d3ec97cce66/statutory-declaration-of-defeat.jpg Memories - Declaration of Defeat - Make it stand out The great declaration of defeat, instigated and drawn up by Michael Cooper (note, he is ex-army!) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6476a45b1e3fe21368fc7bf6/17b1a5db-272d-41b2-9717-82b1bce38de3/2025-01-01+13.13.39.jpg Memories - Declaration of Defeat - Make it stand out Amy Dobson won the 2024 David Cooper Water Fighting Trophy. 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Seated:-- Brig-Gen Melville, Maj-Gen Russell, Brig-Gen Hart https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6476a45b1e3fe21368fc7bf6/0bb8d590-9c3b-46f7-b38a-78d584e683f1/victory-parade-robert-young-bobby-gendarme.jpg Major General Robert Young Robert Young at Victory Parade with a 'Bobby' and a 'Gendarme', May 1919. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6476a45b1e3fe21368fc7bf6/14b614f6-84ad-442f-9dfa-df488d43c6ba/victory-parade-robert-young.jpg Major General Robert Young Robert Young leading the NZ Troops at Victory Parade, May 1919 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6476a45b1e3fe21368fc7bf6/038ad137-6ce8-44ab-aeea-cf1d273fe1b7/The_New_Zealand_Expeditionary_Force_on_the_Western_Front%2C_1916-1918_Q8933.jpg Major General Robert Young The New Zealand Expeditionary Force on the Western Front, 1916-1918 New Zealand Division Horse Show in Pas-en-Artois. 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