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HANCOCK, John Mervyn
Step 1: Personal Details
Service Number: | 2063 |
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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 I 74 |
Memorials: | Birchip War Memorial |
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.