Cook, William Wilfred (Flying Officer)

Killed in Flying Accident 1944-November-08

Flying Officer William Wilfred Cook RCAF

Birth Date: 1914-January-23

Born:

Parents: Alfred & Naomi Filer Cook

Spouse: Elsie Dalene Cook, of Windsor, Ontario.

Home: Hamilton, Ontario

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

158 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Strength In Unity

Base

RAF Lissett

Rank

Flying Officer

Position

Bomb Aimer

Service Numbers

J/37827
Prev: J/37837

Home

Hamilton, Ontario

Target

None

Final Burial

Stonefall Cemetery
Sec H Row B Grave 19

Took off from Lissett at 20:17 in Halifax Mk III (Sqn code NP-G Bomber Command) on an night bombing practice flight to the Range at North Frodingham combined with a local flying training exercise.

Aircraft took off and climbed slowly to 400 feet but then dived into the ground near to the village of Gembling two miles west of the runway at Lissett, Yorkshire, England.

Killed includes Cook: Pilot Officer Clarence William Arthur Britton RCAF J/92636 KIA Stonefall Cemetery Harrowgate Yorkshire Sec. H. Row B. Grave 17. Flight Sergeant William Max Freeman RCAF R/189238 pilot KIA Stonefall Cemetery Sec. H. Row B. Grave 16. Flight Sergeant Gerald William Henry Patterson RCAF R/206111 KIA Stonefall Cemetery Sec. H. Row B. Grave 15. Flying Officer Andrew Sharp RCAF J/37536 KIA Stonefall Cemetery Sec. H. Row B. Grave 18. Flight Sergeant Geoffrey William Stone RCAF R/205656 KIA Stonefall Cemetery Sec. H. Row B. Grave 14. Sergeant Edwin Sampson Powell RAF KIA Stonefall Cemetery Sec. H. Row B. Grave 13.

Unvetted Source 158 Squadron Association-Personnel Detail