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Archive Report: Allied Forces

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Fleet Air Arm Crest
01.10.1941 No. 772 Squadron Roc L3073 Sub Lt. Cooper

Operation: Training

Date: 01st October 1941 (Wednesday)

Unit: No. 772 Squadron (Fleet Air Arm)

Type: Blackburn Roc

Serial: L3073

Code: Not known

Base: HMS Landrail (Mchrihanish, Argylleshire)

Location: Sound of Jura

Pilot: Sub. Lt. (A) John William Terence Cooper RNZNVR Age 21. Killed

Air/Gnr: LAC. Joseph Stewart P/JX 201416 RN Age 21. Killed

REASON FOR LOSS:

Very few details but it seems that they're on a training exercise en-route to Fort William when they flew into a hill in low visibility at Airdo Farm, one mile NE of Craignish Point on the Sound of Jura. Both crew members were killed instantly.

Sub.Lt. Cooper was †he first member of the RNZNVR to lose his life in the war.

Burial details:

Sub. Lt. John William Terence Cooper. Oban Cemetery (Pennyfuir) Section 1. Grave 315. Son of John George and Mary Margaret Cooper, of Mount Eden, Auckland, New Zealand.

Air/Gnr: LAC. Joseph Stewart. Paisley Cemetery (Hawkhead) Section S. Grave 1184. Son of Joseph and Agnes Stewart, of Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland.

Researched and dedicated to the relatives of this crew with thanks to the research by Errol Martyn and his publications: “For Your Tomorrow Vols. 1-3”, Auckland War Memorial Museum, Weekly News of New Zealand, With thanks to Helen Davy in New Zealand for photographs and press cuttings.other sources as quoted below:

KTY 01.08.2018

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Sources used by us in compiling Archive Reports include: Bill Chorley - 'Bomber Command Losses Vols. 1-9, plus ongoing revisions', Dr. Theo E.W. Boiten and Mr. Roderick J. Mackenzie - 'Nightfighter War Diaries Vols. 1 and 2', Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt - 'Bomber Command War Diaries', Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Tom Kracker - Kracker Luftwaffe Archives, Michel Beckers, Major Fred Paradie (RCAF) and MWO François Dutil (RCAF) - Paradie Archive (on this site), Jean Schadskaje, Major Jack O'Connor USAF (Retd.), Robert Gretzyngier, Wojtek Matusiak, Waldemar Wójcik and Józef Zieliński - 'Ku Czci Połeglyçh Lotnikow 1939-1945', Archiwum - Polish Air Force Archive (on this site), Anna Krzystek, Tadeusz Krzystek - 'Polskie Siły Powietrzne w Wielkiej Brytanii', Franek Grabowski, Norman L.R. Franks 'Fighter Command Losses', Stan D. Bishop, John A. Hey MBE, Gerrie Franken and Maco Cillessen - Losses of the US 8th and 9th Air Forces, Vols 1-6, Dr. Theo E.W. Boiton - Nachtjagd Combat Archives, Vols 1-13. Aircrew Remembered Databases and our own archives. We are grateful for the support and encouragement of CWGC, UK Imperial War Museum, Australian War Memorial, Australian National Archives, New Zealand National Archives, UK National Archives and Fold3 and countless dedicated friends and researchers across the world.
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