BROCKLEY D C

From Hoole History and Heritage Society


BROCKLEY, Donald Charles

Regiment: 61 Sqn. Royal Air Force

Rank: Sergeant – Wireless Operator/Air Gunner

Died: 26 March 1942

Aged: 21

Buried/ Memorial: Reichswald Forest, Germany

Address: 33 Sumpter’s Pathway, Hoole


Cheshire Observer 28 March 1942

HOOLE AIRMAN REPORTED MISSING

Mr and Mrs E. B. Brockley, 33 Sumpter’s Pathway, Hoole, have received official intimation that their only son, Sergt D.C. Brockley, R.A.F. is missing on active service. Sergt. Brockley, who is 21, was educated at Hoole and Newton Council School and afterwards was employed at the Reliance Works before joining the Air Force two years ago. Only recently he had been on leave.