Sydney Francis Cooper

An Aircraftman 2nd Class with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, Sydney died on 30th of August 1946 aged 19. 

Son of Sydney Bertram and Ethel Blanche Cooper of Lowestoft. In 1939 they lived at 31 Stanford Street. 

Sydney joined the air force in late 1945 served with 265 Maintenance Unit based at Grove, Berkshire.  

On 30 August Sydney was walking back to R.A.F. Grove, from Wantage, with two colleagues when they were struck by a R.A.F. lorry travelling toward Wantage, and Sydney and Aircraftman Woodall were knocked down a bank and died as a result. The third man, Aircraftman Wide, was seriously injured. The lorry was being driven without permission.  

WITH THANKS TO: Malcolm Barrass