400519 - Unaccounted airman - 19-5-1940

[Henk Welting]

Best wishes for the new year !
What caused the death of AC1 Alfred P. COOPER - 648356, whose name I can't find in The Times and Flight Global archives, buried Clippesby (St.Peter) Churchyard, Fleggburgh, Norfolk (UK2542).
Regards and thanks for your help.
Henk.

[Henk Welting]

Proposed aircraft losses for this day:
Blenheim I - L1154 - 5 BGS - crashed on take-off Jurby/IoM.
Blenheim I - L1471 - 5 OTU - crashed in forced landing Woolaston, Gloucestershire.
Master I - N7454 - 5 FTS - crashed in forced landing Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire.
Reliant - X8521 - 1 STT - crashed in forced landing Start Point, Sanday, Orkneys.
Regards,
Henk.

[Dick]

Hi Henk
Happy New Year. I'm afraid that both your Blenheims are in Warner's "Blenheim" but on 19/06/40 and there were no recorded deaths
Regards
Dick

[Henk Welting]

Thanks Dick. Your info is correct. Mistake from my side. The said airman indeed was killed (or died) 19-6-1940.
Regards,
Henk.

[Martyn A Critchlow]

Alfred P Cooper - Death regd Thirsk, Yorkshire

Saturday 13 July 1940, Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, West Yorkshire, England
Thirsk Road Smash
The victims were Alfred Percy Cooper (20), air mechanic, of Cllpperby, Yarmouth, and George Harold Doult (22), private In the Green Howards.

Martyn