John Mervyn HANCOCK

HANCOCK, John Mervyn

Service Number: 2063
Enlisted: 31 March 1915
Last Rank: Driver
Last Unit: Royal Flying Corps
Born: Omeo, Victoria, Australia, 9 November 1893
Home Town: Colac, Colac-Otway, Victoria
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Motor mechanic
Died: Aircraft accident, Richmond, Surrey, England, 1 March 1919, aged 25 years
Cemetery: Ruislip (St. Martin) Churchyard Extension, Middlesex, England
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Memorials: Birchip War Memorial
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Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks

Serving with a Training Squadron of the then RAF at Northolt in England, during a ferry flight on 1 March 1919, Sopwith Snipe aircraft E6157 flown by Lieutenant Hancock caught fire in flight and involuntary looped, throwing him from the aircraft and he was killed.