Buck, Percy Lloyd

Date of birth:: July 19th, 1915 (Montreal/Quebec, Canada)
Date of death:: September 12th, 1944 (Dordrecht/Zuid-Holland, Netherlands)
Buried on:: Canadian War Cemetery Bergen op Zoom
Plot: 8. Row: F. Grave: 12.
Service number:: J/23022
Nationality:: Canadian

Biography

Pilot, Flight Lieutenant
429 Squadron, RCAF

Son of Frederick James Buck and Mary Louisa Buck of Outremont, Quebec. Killed 12 September 1944, age 29, as a result of a crash with his Handley Page Halifax of 429 Squadron RCAF. The aircraft had left RAF Linton-on-Ouse a few hours earlier for a mission to Wanne Eickel, Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany and was hit by FLAK fire over the Isle of Dordrecht. The seven crew members managed to leave the aircraft by parachute. Percy Buck was already wounded and died of his injuries in hospital the same day. The remaining crew members were made prisoners of war. He was initially buried at the General Cemetery in Dordrecht and later reburied at the Canadian War Cemetery, Bergen op Zoom.

His tombstone reads, ‘He is not dead’ His memory lives for ever in our hearts. ‘Mother and brothers’

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