Copping, Clarence Lummis (Warrant Officer 2nd Class)

Missing with an all Canadian crew on an anti-submarine patrol over the North Atlantic Shot down over Bay of Biscay.

Killed includes Copping: Warrant Officer Class 2 William James Arnold RCAF R/106166 KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 179. Pilot Officer George Cojocar RCAF J/16374 KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 175. Warrant Officer Class 2 Richard Glover Montgomery RCAF R/106426 KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 180. Flying Officer Robert Albert Pilllips RAF KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 128. Warrant Officer Class 2 Frank Spino RCAF R/75875 KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 180. Flying Officer Richard John Weatherhead RCAF J/6992 KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 175. Flying Officer William Christian Zapfe RCAF J/7024 KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 175.

Warrant Officer Class 2 Copping and three of his crew members, Flying Officer Weatherhead, Flying Officer Zapfe and Warrant Officer Class 2 Spino were all members of the same crew who had been interned in Portuguese Guinea on October 2, 1942 when a 200 Squadron Hudson aircraft went down in bad weather. They all returned to the United Kingdom on October 24, 1942.