In Memory Of

COOPER, JOSEPH JOHN

Service Details
Age:
 21
Date of Birth:
 -0001-11-30
Service No:
 778188
Rank:
 Sergeant
Unit:
 106 Sqdn.
Regiment:
 Royal Air Force
Date of Death:
 1942-07-27
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Lancaster R5748, took off on 26 July 1942 at 2330, a bombing raid over the city of Hamburg in Germany. The aircraft was shot down over Friesland by the German night fighter Lt. Lothar Linke, 11./NJG1, after that it crashed in Opeinde at 0205. In the crash, four crew members got killed
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 Grave 3.
Cemetery:
 SMALLINGERLAND (OPEINDE) PROTESTANT CEMETERY
Country:
 Netherlands
Additional Information
Son of Alfred John and Ann Frances Cooper, of Claremont, Cape Town, South Africa.