COOK, FRANK RENE MALYON Rank: Flying Officer Service No: 408971 Date of Death: 29/08/1944 Age: 21 Regiment/Service: Royal Australian Air Force Grave Reference: Plot C. Row 8. Grave 219. Cemetery: LEMSTERLAND (LEMMER) GENERAL CEMETERY Additional Information: Son of John Malyon Cook and Jeane Cook, of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2649324/COOK,%20FRANK%20RENE%20MALYON
Pilot of Spitfire MH907 coded 9R-Z, No. 229 RAF Squadron took off from Coltishall, Norfolk, 29-8-1944. Shot down by AA-fire from Radarstation "Eisbär" at Sondel Crashed in Noordoostpolder - SW of Lemmer - just over dyke at 1945 hrs. According to http://www.teunispats.nl/ongelandt-2.htm: Was not shot down by AA-Fire of "Eisbär", but from German FLAK-boats according eyewitness account of Wiebe Feenstra (born 02 Nov 1928, Lemmer)
