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Military service
Service number:
R/163007
Age:
19
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
432 Sqdn.
Death:
January 22, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
2. M. 7.
Additional information
Son of Douglas Stephen and D'Arcy Mary Pocock, of Swansea, Ontario. At the time of his death, he was living in Peterbourogh, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Sergeant Douglas Layne Pocock
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Newspaper Clipping
Photo from The Toronto Star, August 2, 1945, page 23. RAF Daily Operations:- 648 aircraft - 421 Lancasters, 224 Halifaxes, 3 Mosquitos - on the first major raid to Magdeburg. The German controller again followed the progress of the bomber stream across the North Sea and many night fighters were in the stream before it crossed the German coast. 57 aircraft - 35 Halifaxes, 22 Lancasters - were lost, 8.8 per cent of the force; it is probable that three quarters of the losses were caused by German night fighters. The Halifax loss rate was 15.6 per cent. Sgt. Pocock was serving on 432 (RCAF) Sqdn with a mixed crew: two RAF and one RAAF were also killed, three were taken PoW, one of them also RCAF. (www.lostbombers.co.uk) -
Newspaper Clipping
The Toronto Star, August 2, 1945, page 23. -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Sergeant Douglas Layne Pocock is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Sergeant Douglas Layne Pocock is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of DOUGLAS LAYNE POCOCK
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Photo of DOUGLAS LAYNE POCOCK
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Service Book
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Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star August 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Douglas Layne Pocock
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Douglas Layne Pocock
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Douglas Layne Pocock
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Douglas Layne Pocock
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Douglas Layne Pocock
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Douglas Layne Pocock
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Douglas Layne Pocock
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Douglas Layne Pocock
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Douglas Layne Pocock
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 418 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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