William Victor Trevor Rooper [SEP] conflict
William Victor Trevor Rooper
Captain William Victor Trevor Rooper (10 May 1897 – 9 October 1917) was a British World War I flying ace credited with eight aerial victories, before becoming Xavier Dannhuber's seventh victim.
Biography.
Rooper was the third and youngest son of Percy Lens Rooper and Alice Nancy (née Royden), the daughter of Sir Thomas Royden, 1st Baronet, MP. He was born in Chester, Cheshire, though the family later moved over the border into Wales, living at Gresford in Denbighshire
son of Thomas Richard Rooper (1782–1865), also a cleric, and as the third son of John Rooper the brother of John Bonfoy Rooper. In the next generation, William Victor Trevor Rooper was son of Percy Lens Rooper, the son of Captain John Rooper (1809–1892) of the Rifle Brigade; who was another son of Thomas Richard Rooper.