Eric Alan BOCK

BOCK, Eric Alan

Service Numbers: N152107, 423214
Enlisted: 28 November 1941
Last Rank: Flight Sergeant
Last Unit: No. 625 Squadron (RAF)
Born: Cooks Hill, Newcastle West - New South Wales, Australia, 29 October 1922
Home Town: Cooks Hill, Newcastle West, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Aircraft shot down on Night Bombing Raid, Hollenstein, Germany, 13 August 1944, aged 21 years
Cemetery: Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Germany
Coll. grave 26. C. 6-9
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial
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World War 2 Service

28 Nov 1941: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, N152107, General Hospitals - WW2
20 Jun 1942: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman 2 (WW2), 423214, Aircrew Training Units
20 Jun 1942: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 423214
13 Aug 1944: Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 423214, No. 625 Squadron (RAF), Air War NW Europe 1939-45

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Biography contributed by Steve Larkins


Eric Alan Brock was born in Cook's Hill, a suburb of NEwcastle in New South wales, in 1922.

Enlisting in the RAAF in June 1942, Flt Sgt Allan BOCK trained as a Navigator under the Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS) in Canada and England, and was posted to 625 Squadron RAF operating Lancaster bombers.

On the night of 12/13 August 1944, Flt Sgt BOCK's Lancaster, serial number ME733, radio call sign CF-Z, was shot down and crashed at Hollenstein, Germany after an operational sortie over Brunswick. He was killed alongside six other crew members, aged 21 yo.

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