Sgt. Laverick was serving with 550 squadron. He was a crew member of Lancaster I DV 306 BQ-E which took off from North Killingholme on a mission to Braunschweig, where the aircraft was shot down. All died except one who was taken prisoner.
This was an evening when 42 aircraft, with an average crew of 7, were lost.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1944; W.R. Chorley; 1997; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 91 1
