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Claude CooperPrint Page 
19-March-2016
Photographs supplied by Peter F Williams
The plaque commemorates indigenous volunteer bushfire fighter Claude Cooper who died on the 3rd December 1957 while fighting fires in the Blue Mountains.
On 2 December 1957 huge fires raged through Blue Mountains towns. The worst-hit were Leura and Wentworth Falls, where 158 homes, shops, schools, churches and a hospital were destroyed (130 at Leura alone). At the peak of the blaze up to 1000 men fought desperately to save homes throughout the towns.
Location
| Address: | Great Western Highway, Lily Pond , Faulconbridge, 2776 |
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| State: | NSW |
| Area: | AUS |
| GPS Coordinates: | Lat: -33.702764 Long: 150.531347 Note: GPS Coordinates are approximate. |
Details
| Monument Type: | Plaque |
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| Monument Theme: | People |
| Sub-Theme: | Tragedy |
| Actual Event Start Date: | 03-December-1957 |
| Actual Event End Date: | 03-December-1957 |
Dedication
Front Inscription
Source: MA,HTo The Memory Of
CLAUDE COOPER
Volunteer Bush Fire Fighter
Of The Faulconbridge District
Died 3rd December 1957
Monument details supplied by Monument Australia - www.monumentaustralia.org.au
