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Military service
Service number:
J/5498
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Death:
March 17, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Plot O. Row O. Grave 13.
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer Floyd Bryson Cobb
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Grave Marker
Photo of grave marker courtesy of Rich Allenby (see www.allenby.info/aircraft/planes/insea/am804.html) At 09.50hrs on the 17th of March 1942 Hudson #AM804 crashed into the sea about a mile off Redcar and broke up. Redcar lifeboat went to try and help but were only able to recover one body at the time. Two others were later washed ashore. Buried in Thornaby on Tees Cemetery: P/O (P) John H Braybrooks MiD RAF, aged 30 Sgt (OB) William A Walker, aged 26, of Kisbey, Sask. P/O (OB) Floyd B Cobb, aged 23, of Outlook, Sask. The following names are inscribed on the Runnymede Memorial. Sgt (OB) Francis H McMullin, of Kamloops, Victoria, B. C. Sgt (WAG) Louis J Krapek aged 19, of Huntsville, Ont. F/Sgt (WAG) Jack R Dickerson RAF, aged 21, of Holkham, Norfolk.
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Pilot Officer Floyd Bryson Cobb
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Commemorated on:
Page 65 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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THORNABY-ON-TEES CEMETERY Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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