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Cooper, Walter David Dick (Flying Officer)

Killed in Flying Accident 1944-September-29

Birth Date: 1915 (age 29)

Walter & Agnes A. Cooper

Home: Burlington, Ontario (parents)

Service
RCAF
Unit
34 (Supply Group) (RAF)
Base
RAF Northolt
Rank
Flying Officer
Marshal
Air Chief MarshalA/C/M
Air MarshalA/M
Air Vice MarshalA/V/M
Air CommodoreA/C
Group CaptainG/C
Wing CommanderW/C
Squadron LeaderS/L
Flight LieutenantF/L
Flying OfficerF/O
Pilot OfficerP/O
Warrant Officer 1st ClassWO1
Warrant Officer 2nd ClassWO2
Flight SergeantFS
SergeantSGT
CorporalCPL
Senior AircraftmanSAC
Leading AircraftmanLAC
Aircraftman 1st ClassAC1
Aircraftman 2nd ClassAC2
Position
Navigator
Service Numbers
J/39012

34 Wing Supply Group, part of 2nd Tactical Airforce, contained four squadrons, formed 1944-07-24.

Took off from Northolt at 09:40 on a ferry flight to France.

At about 10:00, and flying in cloud the aircraft hit a tree, breaking a wing and crashed to the ground at Depot Dean Lane, Merstham, Surrey, England.

Killed: W/C Colin Frank Mortlock Chapman RAF KIFA Caterham And Warlingham Burial Ground Sec. M. Grave 2. Flying Officer Walter David Dick Cooper RCAF J/39012 KIFA Brookwood Military Cemetery grave 55. E. 2. W/C Rowland Branston Cox RAF pilot KIFA St. Mary Churchyard, Newport. Flight Sergeant Alec Stephen Kay RAF KIFA Kirk Ella Church Cemetery Row U. Grave 16. F/Lt Paul Henry Weston Priestley RAF KIFA Caterham And Warlingham Burial Ground Sec. M. Grave 3.

Canada Source Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Canada Primary Source Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

Home
Google MapBurlington, Ontario (parents)
Burial
Google MapBrookwood Military Cemetery
grave 55 E 2

Anson NK607

Avro Anson

Avro Anson Mk. V
Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum
The Museum's Anson Mk. V was built by MacDonald Brothers in Winnipeg in 1944. It flew with No. 7 Photographic Wing and No. 414 Squadron in Ottawa on photo survey work until the late 1940s. In 1956, it was purchased by INCO and used for mineral surveying until 1980, when it was donated to the Museum. The exterior is painted in the yellow colour common to all BCATP trainers and is in its same wartime RCAF markings.

The Avro Anson was known by a number of nicknames including "Faithful Annie" or "Flying Greenhouse". It was the first aircraft to be flown by the Royal Canadian Air Force to have a retractable undercarriage, which was a comparative novelty in 1936. In 1940, a Canadian government owned company, Federal Aircraft Limited, was created in Montreal to manufacture the Anson for Canadian use. Nearly 3,000 Anson aircraft were produced and, in the early days of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP), the Anson was the standard trainer for many pilots, observers (navigators), wireless operators and bomb aimers. More than 20,000 aircrew received training on the Anson. In Canadian service, the aircraft was substantially re-designed with the substitution of North American engines and many other airframe and equipment changes. Harold Skaarup web pages

General Harold A Skaarup Web Page

YouTube Avro Anson History

YouTube Avro Anson Construction

last update: 2022-02-22 21:45:24

Anson NK607



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