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Maurice Copland
« on: Sunday 27 December 15 02:32 GMT (UK) »
Does anyone have any information about my great grandfather Maurice Copland who served in Iceland in WW2 as an airman. He was most likely stationed there in 1943.

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Re: Maurice Copland
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 27 December 15 02:54 GMT (UK) »
Can you elaborate please?

Date/place of birth & death, parents, siblings, marital status/wife/children, usual occupation, where lived/when & any other significant facts.

Annie

ADDED....Do you know which Air Force?
South Uist, Inverness-shire, Scotland:- Bowie, Campbell, Cumming, Currie

Ireland:- Cullen, Flannigan (Derry), Donahoe/Donaghue (variants) (Cork), McCrate (Tipperary), Mellon, Tol(l)and (Donegal & Tyrone)

Newcastle-on-Tyne/Durham (Northumberland):- Harrison, Jude, Kemp, Lunn, Mellon, Robson, Stirling

Kettering, Northampton:- MacKinnon

Canada:- Callaghan, Cumming, MacPhee

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Re: Maurice Copland
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 27 December 15 03:03 GMT (UK) »
The only other thing i know about him is he was french-canadian.

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Re: Maurice Copland
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 27 December 15 03:12 GMT (UK) »
The only other thing i know about him is he was french-canadian.

How did you arrive at his name & his connection with being an airman in Iceland WW11?

Who are his children, where & when born & wife (maiden name), when/where married etc.

More importantly, when & where was he born? A guestimate year of birth at least?

Annie
South Uist, Inverness-shire, Scotland:- Bowie, Campbell, Cumming, Currie

Ireland:- Cullen, Flannigan (Derry), Donahoe/Donaghue (variants) (Cork), McCrate (Tipperary), Mellon, Tol(l)and (Donegal & Tyrone)

Newcastle-on-Tyne/Durham (Northumberland):- Harrison, Jude, Kemp, Lunn, Mellon, Robson, Stirling

Kettering, Northampton:- MacKinnon

Canada:- Callaghan, Cumming, MacPhee

"OLD GENEALOGISTS NEVER DIE - THEY JUST LOSE THEIR CENSUS"


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Re: Maurice Copland
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 27 December 15 03:21 GMT (UK) »
Only 1 Cop(e)land on here...

By name of Keith

http://aircrewremembered.com/rcafnotes-surnames-c.html

Annie
South Uist, Inverness-shire, Scotland:- Bowie, Campbell, Cumming, Currie

Ireland:- Cullen, Flannigan (Derry), Donahoe/Donaghue (variants) (Cork), McCrate (Tipperary), Mellon, Tol(l)and (Donegal & Tyrone)

Newcastle-on-Tyne/Durham (Northumberland):- Harrison, Jude, Kemp, Lunn, Mellon, Robson, Stirling

Kettering, Northampton:- MacKinnon

Canada:- Callaghan, Cumming, MacPhee

"OLD GENEALOGISTS NEVER DIE - THEY JUST LOSE THEIR CENSUS"

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Re: Maurice Copland
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 27 December 15 03:23 GMT (UK) »
I got the information that he was an airman in Iceland from my mother. She told me that when he was stationed in Iceland he dated my great grandmother and in 1944 my grandmother was born. He left the country probably in like 1944-5 and left my great grandmother to be a single mother. I guess he might have been born around 1916-1922 and most likely in Quebec.

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Re: Maurice Copland
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 27 December 15 03:26 GMT (UK) »
Yea my mother has been looking for any information about him for years and no luck. I just learned about him today in fact and as my grandmother and great grandmother and her husband are all dead i decided to try to get some help from the internet but i didn't expect much though as my mother has had no luck all these years.

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Re: Maurice Copland
« Reply #7 on: Sunday 27 December 15 03:27 GMT (UK) »
Is his name on the birth cert. ?

This should have an address for him at the time?

Annie
South Uist, Inverness-shire, Scotland:- Bowie, Campbell, Cumming, Currie

Ireland:- Cullen, Flannigan (Derry), Donahoe/Donaghue (variants) (Cork), McCrate (Tipperary), Mellon, Tol(l)and (Donegal & Tyrone)

Newcastle-on-Tyne/Durham (Northumberland):- Harrison, Jude, Kemp, Lunn, Mellon, Robson, Stirling

Kettering, Northampton:- MacKinnon

Canada:- Callaghan, Cumming, MacPhee

"OLD GENEALOGISTS NEVER DIE - THEY JUST LOSE THEIR CENSUS"

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Re: Maurice Copland
« Reply #8 on: Sunday 27 December 15 03:29 GMT (UK) »
I unfortunately don't have the birth certificate but i could try and track it down.