Canadian Virtual War Memorial

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 – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Service Book – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Star August 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

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.