Cook, Walter Le Roy (Flying Officer)

Took off from Wickenby at 17:26 in Lancaster Mk I (Sqn code UM-W2 Bomber Command on an operation to Bochum Germany.

It crashed near Menin, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium and on the border with France, NNW from the town of Tourcoing.

Killed includes Cook: Pilot Officer Henry Sulz RCAF J/92698 KIA St. Jan Communal Cemetery Row BB Coll. grave 15-19. Flt Sergeant Kenneth Corbett McCormick RCAF R/150910 KIA St. Jan Communal Cemetery Row BB Coll. grave 15-19. Flight Sergeant Eric Smith RCAF R/210602 KIA St. Jan Communal Cemetery Row BB Coll. grave 15-19. Sergeant Douglas Whitehead Garside RAF KIA St. Jan Communal Cemetery Row BB Collective Grave 15-19. Sergeant Leonard Alfred Rolfe RAF KIA St. Jan Communal Cemetery Row BB Coll. grave 15-19. Sergeant John Fulton RAF KIA St. Jan Communal Cemetery Row BB Coll. grave 15-19.

Addendum: - Distinguished Flying Cross - No.626 Squadron - Award effective 5 February 1945 as per London Gazette dated 20 February 1945 and AFRO 563/45 dated 29 March 1945. Invested with award to next-of-kin, 9 December 1947. No citation Other than "Completed numerous operations against the enemy in the course of which (he has) invariably displayed the utmost fortitude, courage and devotion to duty". Cenotaph at Lakeview Cemetery, Leamington, Essex County, Ontario, Canada Cenotaph lists date of birth as 1916-11-26.