John Perry ALCOCK
- Born: 30 Jun 1913, Banbury, Oxfordshire
- Marriage (1): Dosie Margaret HARPER in 1942 in Paddington, London
- Died: 5 Aug 1944, France
- Buried: 1944, Messac, France
Noted events in his life were:
• Military Service, 1944, France. F/O John Perry Alcock aged 30
died 5 August 1944
Husband of Dosie Margaret Alcok of Stevenage Hertfordshire
Westland Lysander IIIA V9758 MA-D
Messac Communal Cemetary France
ALWAYS TO LIVE IN MY HEART
IBCCC Memorial Phase 2 Panel 121
Service No 127192 RAF Volunteer Reserve Group 3 Squadron 161 pilot take off from Tempsford night raid Special operations Executive Operation Piroque for France
Fellow service man L Germerau (Agent)
Shot down by a Mosquito, the pilot of which had followed the Lysander for some 25 miles in an attempt to identify it and concluded it was a Henschel Hs126. The Lysander exploded and crashed onto a farm by the name of La Patouillais near Messac, SSW of Rennes, France.
John married Dosie Margaret HARPER, daughter of George Edward HARPER and Millicent MUNSON, in 1942 in Paddington, London. (Dosie Margaret HARPER was born on 23 May 1919 in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, baptised on 6 Jul 1919 in Stevenage, Hertfordshire and died in 2004 in Windsor, Berkshire.)
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