Cook, Roy James (Flying Officer)

Took off from Kelstern at 17:08 in Lancaster Mk III (Sqn code CF-W Bomber Command) on an operation to Berlin Germany.

Hit by flak at 25000 feet over Leipzig rupturing the fuel tanks. Aircraft ran out of fuel and crashed near Gourney-En-Bray, Normandy, France.

Killed: Flying Officer Roy James Cook RAF (Can.) pilot KIA French National Cemetery Marissel Grave 209. Sergeant Jack Ringwood RAF KIA French National Cemetery Marissel Grave 210.

POWs: Flight Sergeant Jeffrey Berger RAF POW Stalag 357 Kopernikus. Pilot Officer Ronald Verdun Weller RAF POW Stalag Luft L3 Sagan and Belaria. Sergeant Victor Henry Thompson RAF POW Stalag Luft L7 Bankau near Kreuzburg, Upper Silesia.

Evader: Sergeant Dennis Brown RAF Evader.

TSGNO notes there is a stained glass window in Flying Officer Cook's memory in St Luke's Anglican Church, Cedar Hill cross road, Victoria, BC. Flying Officer Cook was also a Biggs' Boy (K Stofer). Photos of Flying Officer Cook and this Lancaster with it's "Billy Brown" cartoon artwork appear in K. Stofer's book