Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Second World War on The Wartime Memories Project Website

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F/O. Jack Scott Cox

Royal Canadian Air Force 430 Squadron

from:43 Ormard St., Brockville, Ontario

(d.6th June 1944)

Jack Cox was born on 30th of September 1920 in Brockville, Ontario, Canada. Before the war he lived with his parents Agnes and George Cox and is younger brother Charles. Before enlisting he worked as a junior clerk in the bank and was a private in the Brockville rifles. He enlisted as a pilot in Ottawa, Ontario on May 29, 1940. On March 4, 1944 he married Hilda Ruth Jones in Morton, Cheshire, England.

On 6th of June 1944 the P51 Mustang he was flying was shot down near Montfrot in France. His body was taken by the Germans and buried in the town of Beaumont-le-Roger. Later on his remains were exhumed and moved to Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery.



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