1941 Dec Quarter death registration-
Name: Coppin, Robert L.---Age: 27
District: Cheltenham (Volume & Page: 6a & 698)
On the night of Sunday, 21 Oct 1941, with wartime blackout conditions in place, an RAF bus, returning to RAF Little Rissington from Cheltenham, suddenly collided with a broken-down stationary truck on the London Road, Charlton Kings, near Cheltenham. Nine airmen on the crowded bus lost their lives when the bus caught fire and thirteen other airmen were injured.
The airmen who perished in this tragic accident were-
RAFVR Corporal Sidney Francis ANDREWS ,
RAFVR Aircraftman 2nd Class John BASELEY,
RAFVR Leading Aircraftman Michel BRADY DE MAYNARD,
RAFVR Aircraftman 2nd Class Robert Leslie COPPIN,
RAFVR Aircraftman Kenneth John FULLER,
RAFVR Leading Aircraftman Sydney George Peter MEDWIN,
RAFVR Aircraftman 2nd Class Fred POULTER,
RAF Leading Aircraftman Harold Thomas STOKES and
RAFVR Aircraftman 2nd Class Ronald ROSENTHALL.
Military Service-
Rank: Aircraftman 2nd Class
Service No: 1134494
Age: 27
Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Husband of Elsie May Coppin of Peldon, Essex, England; father of one son, Michael.
He is commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
1941 Dec Quarter death registration-
Name: Coppin, Robert L.---Age: 27
District: Cheltenham (Volume & Page: 6a & 698)
On the night of Sunday, 21 Oct 1941, with wartime blackout conditions in place, an RAF bus, returning to RAF Little Rissington from Cheltenham, suddenly collided with a broken-down stationary truck on the London Road, Charlton Kings, near Cheltenham. Nine airmen on the crowded bus lost their lives when the bus caught fire and thirteen other airmen were injured.
The airmen who perished in this tragic accident were-
RAFVR Corporal Sidney Francis ANDREWS ,
RAFVR Aircraftman 2nd Class John BASELEY,
RAFVR Leading Aircraftman Michel BRADY DE MAYNARD,
RAFVR Aircraftman 2nd Class Robert Leslie COPPIN,
RAFVR Aircraftman Kenneth John FULLER,
RAFVR Leading Aircraftman Sydney George Peter MEDWIN,
RAFVR Aircraftman 2nd Class Fred POULTER,
RAF Leading Aircraftman Harold Thomas STOKES and
RAFVR Aircraftman 2nd Class Ronald ROSENTHALL.
Military Service-
Rank: Aircraftman 2nd Class
Service No: 1134494
Age: 27
Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Husband of Elsie May Coppin of Peldon, Essex, England; father of one son, Michael.
He is commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Inscription
(Epitaph...)
"GONE IS THE ONE
WE LOVED SO DEAR
BUT IN OUR HEARTS
HE'S ALWAYS NEAR"
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Records on Ancestry
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UK, World War II Index to Allied Airmen Roll of Honour, 1939-1945
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Gloucestershire, England, Church of England Burials, 1813-1988
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Essex, England, Church of England Marriages, 1754-1937
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England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
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England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915
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