In St. James Churchyard is a family headstone which reads:
In
loving
memory of
a dear mother
& grandmother
Barbara Cook
died 8th Sept. 1997
aged 82 years.
Beloved wife
of the late
James Falshaw
Flt.Sgt. Cook of 15 Sqdn was in a Stirling bomber which took off from Bourn on a raid to Cologne when it was shot down by a night fighter and crashed near Limburg, Belgium. All the crew were killed and buried at St. Truiden though their graves are now at Heverlee War Cemetery.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1943.
Tony Hibberd has added the following:
Stirling BF448 LS-T had departed Bourn at 1825 for Ops CologneIt was intercepted at 4500M, 3km NNW of Hechteren, 12km N of Hasselt by a Night -Fighter captained by Ofw Fritz Schellwat (V/NJG1) and shot down at 2056 for his 8th Abschuss
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 Part 1 Dr Theo Boiten
