Frederick Andrew Couper   Photo: Knud Riis   Updated: 23 JAN 2022 

Airman: a014076.htm Surname: Couper Init: F A Rank: P/O Service: RAAF Sqdn: 999

P_link: p128.htm Plane: WEL DV892 Operation: Other Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d181242 Buried_d: b180243 C_link: c014.htm At_Next: Esbjerg, A. 8. 23

Kl. 14.21 den 18. december 1942 lettede WEL DV892 på en afprøvning af teknisk art - eller et bombetogt til Cloppenburg. Rapporteret gået i havet ud for Great Yarmouth. Liget af P/O Pickles samlet op af et skib næste dag 11 km sydøst for Lowestoft. (Kilde: p128MACR)  

F. A. Couper drev ind ved Vejers Strand (omkring her) den 15. februar 1943.
Han blev begravet i Esbjerg den 18. februar 1943. (Kilde: FAF)

Pilot Officer Frederick Andrew Couper, 25 år, var søn af Charles F. A. og
Florrie Josephine Couper, Mareeba, Queensland, Australia. (Kilde: CWGC)

1 flyver fra WEL DV892 blev begravet i Esbjerg og 1 i United Kingdom. 5 flyvere har ingen kendt grav.
7 flyvere.

At 14:21 on 18 December 1942 WEL DV892 took off from RAF Gransden Lodge on a test flight - or a bombing raid on Cloppenburg. 
Reported down in sea off Great Yarmouth. Body of P/O Pickles picked up next day by boat 7 miles SE of Lowestoft. (Source:  p128MACR)

F. A. Couper was washed ashore on Vejers Strand (about here) on 15 February 1943.
He was buried in Esbjerg on 18 February 1943. (Source: FAF)

Pilot Officer Frederick Andrew Couper, 25, was the son of Charles F. A. and
Florrie Josephine Couper, of Mareeba, Queensland, Australia. (Source: CWGC)
For ever in our love enshrined  Virtual War Memorial Australia has this.
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, P 1, P 23.   

1 airman from WEL DV892 was buried in Esbjerg and 1 in the United Kingdom.
5 airmen have no known grave.

RAF 1474 Flight Wireless Interception Flight - 999 Squadron to limit the name to 3 digits!  IBCC has operational details at the end of the text about each airman. 
Wellington IC DV892 took off from RAF Binbrook on 17 DEC 1942 targeting Cloppenburg. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) 7 airmen.
IBCC and p128MACR state that it took off from RAF Gransden Lodge - where No. 1474 (Special Duties) Flight RAF was stationed at some point.
On 4 January 1943 it was re-numbered 192 Special Squadron. (Source: Wikipedia.)
Aircrew Remembered has this about an earlier Wireless Interception Flight by WEL DV819, Pilot Sgt Paulton.