Cooper, Walter David Dick (Flying Officer)

Killed in Flying Accident 1944-September-29

Flying Officer Walter David Dick Cooper RCAF

Birth Date: 1915

Born:

Walter & Agnes A. Cooper

Home: Burlington, Ontario (parents)

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: Unknown

Service

RCAF

Unit

34 (Supply Group) (RAF)

Base

RAF Northolt

Rank

Flying Officer

Position

Flying Officer

Service Numbers

J/39012

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

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.

Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

Anson serial: NK607

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

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YouTube Avro Anson History

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