GLIDER CHIEF KILLED
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, October 26. With the death of Lieutenant-Colonel John Rock from injuries received m a -iii < r crash the identity of the first coninmndiiig officer of the glider pilot regiment Ims been revealed. Lieutenant-Colonel Rock was a regu- ■ Jar officer in the Royal Engineers., lie served in France in j 1)39-40 as a brigade major. After Dunkirk he was given the task of originating the British airborne ami parachute force. He shared all the risks- and had a number of narrow escapes in the experimental days two years ago. and his last accident occurred in an experimental glider flight.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 28, 28 October 1942, Page 6
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105GLIDER CHIEF KILLED Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 28, 28 October 1942, Page 6
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