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McCormack, W.H., Pt/Off., 1942

Photo: Brian Chandler

In Newcastle (St John Westgate & Elswick) Cemetery is the Commonwealth War Grave of:

Pilot Officer
W.H. McCormack
Pilot
Royal Air Force
9th September 1942, age 26.

Pray for the repose
of the souls of
William and John, his father
Requiescant in pace.

William Hancock was born at Newcastle upon Tyne in the third quarter of 1916 to John and Sarah Jane (nee Hancock). He was the husband of Catherine Agnes (nee McNulty), whom he married at Newcastle in the second quarter of 1942 and they lived in Heaton.

William was a schoolmaster with a BSc.(Lond). He died Stafford, Staffordshire.

Acknowledgements: Ron Carson

William Hancock McCormack is remembered in Newcastle upon Tyne on NUT162 and at Monkwearmouth on M46.02 page 77.


The CWGC entry for Pilot Officer McCormack

If you know more about this person, please send the details to janet@newmp.org.uk