How did the son of the original owner of much of Portsmouth come to be buried in Uganda?
Flying Officer Roy Cooper, 29 and from Paulsgrove, was serving with an unknown unit in the Royal Air Force when he died in Uganda on 28 October 1945. Exactly what he was doing there is unkown, but at that time much of Africa was still part of the British Empire and British forces were still serving in many places.
Before it was purchased by the council for the building of a Council estate, Paulsgove consisted of a few houses and several pig farms, the largest of which was owned by George Cooper, Roy Cooper’s father.
Flying Officer Roy Cooper is buried in Jinja War Cemetery, Uganda.
He flew in the Battle of Britain:
http://www.bbm.org.uk/pilots-c.htm
Thanks for that art, thats fascinating. And theres a gravestone picture in the link too.