Son of Thomas and Lily Laverick, of West Cornforth, Co. Durham.
Sgt. Laverick was in a 35 Sqdn Halifax II B986 TL-G which took off from Graveley on a bombing mission to Berlin. The aircraft crashed near Döberitz. Six crew members were killed, one was taken prisoner.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1943. Wm. Chorley. 1996. Midland Counties Publications. ISBN 0 904507 90 3
William Laverick is remembered in Cornforth on C115.03 and C115.05