Cook, John Leo (Flight Sergeant)

Killed in Action 1945-April-03

Flight Sergeant John Leo Cook RCAF

Birth Date: 1925

Born:

Parents: James Joseph & Mary Frances Cooke

Spouse:

Home: Corner Brook, Newfoundland (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/271065

Home
Google MapCorner Brook, Newfoundland (parents)
Target
Google MapNordhausen Germany
Memorial Location
Google MapRunnymede Memorial Surrey
Panel 281

Took off from Wickenby at 13:15 in Lancaster Mk I (Sqn code UM-G2 Bomber Command) on an operation to bomb military barracks at Nordhausen Germany.

Shot down off the Dutch coast (cause not found) into the North Sea.

Killed includes Cook: Flight Sergeant Lester Cockerham RCAF R/221212 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 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)