Frederick Peter Coaker                 Updated: 10 MAY 2021

Airman: a050010.htm Surname: Coaker Init: F P Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 97

P_link: p104.htm Plane: LAN R5741 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d020942 Buried_d: b171142 C_link: c050.htm At_Next: Lemvig

Den 2. september 1942 styrtede  LAN R5741 i havet. Hele besætningen omkom. Flyet forlod RAF Woodhall Spa kl. 23.46 den 1. september 1942 på et bombetogt mod Saarbrücken. (Kilde: p104MACR)

F. P. Coaker må være drevet ind på Vestkysten (måske omkring her, overblik her). Han blev begravet i Lemvig af sognepræsten den 17. november 1942. (Kilde FAF)

Sergeant (Air Gunner) Frederic Peter Coaker, 29 år, var søn af William og Charlotte Coaker, Peverell, Devon, United Kingdom; gift med Doreen Coaker. (Kilde: CWGC)

1 flyver fra LAN R5741 blev begravet i Esbjerg og 1 i Lemvig. 5 flyvere har ingen kendt grav.
Se Lancaster fotos.  7 flyvere.

On 2 September 1942 LAN R5741 crashed into the sea. All of the crew perished. The plane left RAF Woodhall Spa at 2346 hours on 1 SEP1942 on a bombing raid targeting Saarbrücken.(Source:p104MACR)

F. P Coaker must have been washed ashore on the western coast of Jutland (maybe about here,
overview here). On 17 November 1942 he was buried in Lemvig. The Vicar officiated at the graveside ceremony. (Source: FAF)

Sergeant (Air Gunner) Frederic Peter Coaker, 29, was the son of William and Charlotte Coaker, of Peverell, Devon, United Kingdom, and the husband of Doreen Coaker. (Source: CWGC)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Ph1, Panel 21.

1 airman from LAN R5741 was buried in Esbjerg and 1 in Lemvig. 5 airmen have no known grave.
See No. 97 Squadron RAF (Wikipedia) and 97 Squadron Association.  See Lancaster Photos.
Lancaster I R5741 DF-K took off from RAF Woodhall Spa at 23.46 hrs on 01 SEP 1942.
(Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) See also RAF Woodhall Spa at RAF-Lincolnshire-info. 7 airmen.