

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.
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