Dear David,
RE: Warrant Officer R C S Hancock:
I hope this finds you ... as I've specially joined RootsChat to try and get this message through to you. Having just picked myself up off the floor, I was shocked to see a page in my dear father's handwriting from someone's POW logbook. All I did was Google in his name - and bof! - there you are and there it was!
Just to let you know why he was featured in The Kriegie, Yorkshire Post Edition, but wasn't included in the address list at the back. With a Wiltshire father, Irish mother, born in India, he was an honorary Yorkshireman, by virtue of the fact that he married my Mum, a Yorkshire farmer's daughter (Woodhouse Farm, etc, as per the extract from the logbook). I have his logbook, miraculously, and also The Kriegie copy. Sadly his 'Handle with Care' disappeared in one of the many moves we had during his subsequent career in the RAF until he retired beginning of the 60s. He passed 18 months after a debilitating stroke in 1984.
My Dad, as one of 'Trenchard's brats' was a regular and so was a little bit older and more experienced than the conscripts. Hence he found himself up there with the camp leaders, as the second line of command to the greats such as the hero Warrant Officer J A G Dixie Deans.
So can I help you any further? And can you help me? I personally want to track down Ann Whittam, who is the daughter of one of the crew of the Whitley Z9280, shot down over Holland on 27/28 February 1942. All the crew perished except my father.
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Regards,
Pat Jackson
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