Thread: P/O Crooks 28 may 40 226Sq ?
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Old 22nd April 2006, 21:34
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Re: P/O Crooks 28 may 40 226Sq ?
Hi Jerry

Just to add to the above, David Alexander Cummings CROOKS DFC hailed from Toronto (Canadian in RAF) and joined 263 Squadron to fly twin-engined Whirlwinds. He was shot down and killed on 1 April 1941 and is buried in France. He was 28 years old.

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PS: Crooks was shot down in flames by return fire from a Do215 he was attacking in conjunction with Sqn Ldr A.H. Donaldson off the Lizard. It would seem that his body drifted to the French coast. The Dornier was claimed damaged.
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