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Auction: 14001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 267

Three: Squadron Leader G.W. Cockerill Royal Air Force
Defence and War Medals; General Service 1918-62, E.II.R., one clasp, Malaya (Flt. Lt. G. W. Cockerill. R.A.F.), good very fine, mounted as originally worn, with a portrait photograph of the recipient (3)

Squadron Leader Geoffrey William Cockerill, born Goole, East Yorkshire, 29.6.1924; served during the Second World War in the Royal Air Force; Commissioned Pilot Officer, 3.8.1945; promoted Flying Officer, 23.10.1947; Flight Lieutenant, 4.4.1952; posted to No. 2 Air Navigation School, R.A.F. Thorney Island, for staff navigator duties, 16.1.1961; posted as a navigator to R.A.F. Hullavington 12.12.1961; posted to the R.A.F. Radar Research Flying Unit at R.A.F. Pershore, October 1963; Southern Communication Squadron at R.A.F. Bovingdon, 28.9.1966; posted to the N.C.S. Detachment at R.A.F. Wyton, 31.12.1968; promoted Squadron Leader, 1.7.1973; retired, 15.5.1976; died at Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, November 2004.

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