ADCOCK, Ley Garnet Bertram
| Service Number: | 409281 |
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| Enlisted: | 17 August 1941, Sydney, NSW |
| Last Rank: | Flying Officer |
| Last Unit: | HQ (RAF) Burma |
| Born: | Greenwich, New South Wales, Australia, 26 December 1916 |
| Home Town: | Greenwich, Lane Cove, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | St Andrews Cathedral Choir School, Sydney Grammar School |
| Occupation: | Optician |
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World War 2 Service
| 17 Aug 1941: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 409281, HQ (RAF) Burma, Sydney, NSW | |
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| 18 Dec 1945: | Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 409281 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Bertram ADCOCK, 185 Greenwich Road, Greenwich, NSW
Ley was a member of the Masonic Club Sydney, North Sydney Cricket Club, Hunters Hill Tennis Club, Old Sydneian's Club, Chatswood Rifle Club and Blacktown (St. Andrews) Golf Club.
He was apprenticed to Australian Optical Co. 91 York Street, Sydney from 1933 to 1938 and was emplyed from 198 to 1941 by E.J. Paxton (Opticians) Pty Ltd of 9-11 Castleregh Street as a Facial Fitter and Buyer. Ley then joined the RAAF.
From hundreds of flickering lights illuminating village festivals in the Ganges Delta the crew of an eastern air command air-sea rescue Catalina were able to pick the one light which brought to an end a five hours night search for a ditched bomber. The American pilot, Lieutenant Grahame, USAAF, and his Australian navigator P/0 L.B. Adcock of Sydney, have now picked up 33 British and American air crew in series of day and night rescues in the Ganges Delta and the Bay of Bengal. Called out last weekend to search for a Bomber the Catalina crew found the whole area ablaze with light, which seemed to mark all night celebration of some festival. Dazzled by hundreds of lights they nevertheless finally noticed that one came from the river below and was being focused on a bomber dinghy. Dropping to less than three hundred feet they saw that the dinghy was on deck of an American launch.
The Catalina made its second night mercy-landing in a month on the mile wide river and picked up survivors, two of whom were injured. It would have taken many hours to reach a railhead from where the launch was bound, but the Catalina flew the injured men to Calcutta for hospital treatment.
Fom 1946 to 1945 he returned to work for E.J. Paxton (Opticians) Pty. Ltd. moving in 1948 - 1949 sto Safety Sales Pty. Ltd. of 90 Pitt Street Sydney as an Optical Traveller. In 1950 - 1951 he was employed as a Traveller by H.A. Zlotkowski Pty. Ltd. of 37 Salisbury Road Campbdown. In 1951 he again changed employers to Fassett & Johnson Ltd. of 38 Chalmers Street, Sydney as an Interstate & Country Traveller.