Cockerham, Lester (Flight Sergeant)

Killed in Action 1945-April-03

Flight Sergeant Lester Cockerham RCAF

Birth Date: 1925-April-03

Born:

Parents: John Charles & Maria Jane Cockerham

Spouse:

Home: Windsor, Ontario (parents)

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

626 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
To Strive And Not To Yield To strive and not to yeild

Base

RAF Wickenby

Rank

Flight Sergeant

Position

Air Gunner

Service Numbers

R/221212

Home
Google MapWindsor, Ontario (parents)
Target
Google MapNordhausen Germany
Memorial Location
Google MapRunnymede Memorial Surrey
Panel 281

Took off from RAF Wickenby at 1315 in Lancaster Mk I (Sqn code UM-G2 Bomber Command) on an operation to bomb a military barracks at Nordhausen Germany.

Presumed lost to a night fighter off the Dutch coast.

Killed: Flight Sergeant Lester Cockerham RCAF R/221212 KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 281. Flight Sergeant John Leo Cooke RCAF R/271065 KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 281. Warrant Officer Class 2 Edward John O'Rourke RCAF R/120092 KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 281. Flying Officer Leslie Keith Driver RAF KIA Kingdom Runnymede Memorial Panel 284. Flying Officer Joseph Gordon Hallowell RAF KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 267. Sergeant Gordon Walter Edmund Keeble RAF KIA Crooswijk General Cemetery Rotterdam Plot LL. Row 1. Grave 69. Sergeant Alastair Wingate Scott RAF KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 276.

Canada Source Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Commonwealth War Grave Commission Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Find-A-Grave Finadagrave.com

Canada Primary Source Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)