RAF 166 Squadron

Crew Photographs - Missing or Lost

Lancaster Mk III  AS-J2  ND825

P/O Alfred Ernest Stanley Cooper & Crew

Lost - 28 April 1944

Tasking Friedrichshaven, Germany


Shot down by night-fighter

piloted by Maj Paul Zorner, III./NJG5


Buried: Granges-Sur-Vologne Communial Cemetery, France

Cooper Crew
C W E Tiplady

F/O Charles William Eric Tiplady

RCAF  J/26726

Air Bomber

photograph courtesy Canadian Virtual War Memorial
C W E Tiplady

F/Sgt Eric Moore Thompson

RAAF  427220

Mid Upper Gunner


photograph courtesy National Archives of Australia
E A Cryer

Sgt Eric Alfred Cryer

RAF  1606768

Flight Engineer

Back Row L - R

Sgt Leonard Percival Oughton  RAF 1397336 - Wireless Operator

Sgt Simon McCallum  RAF  1397486 - Navigator

F/O Charles William Eric Tiplady  RCAF  J/26726 - Air Bomber

F/Sgt Eric Moore Thompson  RAAF  427220 - Air Bomber



Front Row L - R

Sgt Eric Alfred Cryer  RAF  1606768 - Flight Engineer

P/O Alfred Ernest Stanley Cooper  RAF  172298 - Pilot

Sgt Kenneth Rowley  RAF  427220 - Mid Upper Gunner

       
Sorties »    posted in 28.3.1944 Notes:
       
18 Apr 1944 ND825  AS-J2 Rouen  
20 Apr 1944 " Cologne  
22 Apr 1944 " Düsseldorf  
24 Apr 1944 " Karlsruhe  
27 Apr 1944 " Friedrichshafen nothing heard after take-off