The Airmen's Stories - P/O A M COOPER-KEY
Aston Maurice Cooper-Key went to Sherborne School and joined the RAF on a short service commission in April 1938. With training completed, he was posted to 23 Squadron at Wittering on January 14th 1939.
He moved to 46 Squadron at Digby in July 1940. On the 24th he was killed when he crashed on a railway embankment west of Peartree Station, Derby, attempting a forced-landing in Hurricane P2685.
Cooper-Key was 21.
He is
buried in Scopwick Burial
Ground, Lincolnshire.
 
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