Kenneth Morrison
Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 7749 Location: Rockcliffe Dalbeattie
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Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 11:57 am Post subject: Pilot Officer Lorenzo Diaz Coupland RAF |
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Pilot Officer Lorenzo Diaz Coupland, RAF.
Born in Chile. Died in USA.
Buittle Cemetery is adjacent to Buittle Parish Church, just off the A745 between Dalbeattie and Castle Douglas.
OS Ref. NX808598.
The bench in the overview photo (by spoons) of the cemetery has a small plaque on the rear.
Name: COUPLAND, LORENZO DIAZ
Initials: L D
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Pilot Officer
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force
Age: 22
Date of Death: 03/11/1942
Service No: 49802
Additional information: Son of Robert and Jane Coupland, of Castle Douglas, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Sec. N. Lot 93. Grave 5.
Cemetery: MONTGOMERY (OAKWOOD) CEMETERY ANNEXE
His CWG is on findagrave
Montgomery (Oakwood) Cemetery Annexe contains 78 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, all airmen who died while training in Alabama under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. (CWGC) _________________ Ken |
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