Beaupre, Montmorency County, Quebec (parents)Took off from Syerston at 00:25 in Lancaster Mk I (Sqn code QR-R Bomber Command) on an operation to Bremen Germany.
Aircraft was hit by flak and finished off by a night fighter and crashed at de Alde Feanen National Park; near Wartena, Friesland, Holland.
Killed: Warrant Officer Class 2 James Francis Cooper RCAF R/55387 KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 102. Pilot Officer Peter Clement Vellacott Joslin RAF KIA Wartena General Cemetery Idaarderadeel Plot B. Row 12. Grave 21. Flight Sergeant Edward Joseph May RAF KIA Eernewoude Cemetery Tietjerksteradeel Plot 15. Grave 2.
POWs: Sergeant Philip James Bridgeman RCAF R/92999 Evaded but re-captured and made a POW Stalag 344 Lamsdorf. Pilot Officer Neal Douglas Mullins RCAF J/15440 POW Stalag Luft L3 Sagan and Belaria. Sergeant Eric Underwood Booth RAF POW Stalag 344 Lamsdorf. Flight Sergeant Bertram Arthur Farmer RAF POW Stalag 344 Lamsdorf.
The wreckage of R5682 was excavated in Oct 2017 and and human remains, believed to be Warrant Officer Class 2 Cooper were recovered
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