Lieutenant George Horrocks

Lieutenant George Horrocks originally served with the Kings Own Royal Regiment before transferring to Airborne service in late-May 1944 with the Glider Pilot Regiment and was probably still in glider training by the end of 1944. He was amongst a party of Glider Pilots en-route to India in December 1944.

Lieutenant Horrocks died on 5 December 1944 when Dakota FL588 from 24 Squadron RAF Transport Command, based at RAF Hendon, crashed on a snowy ridge in Ariege, near Mijanes in the Pyrenees, Southern France. 23 Airmen were onboard, 20 of which belonged to the GPR. Fifteen other men onboard died as a result of the crash. He is now buried in the Mazargues War Cemetery, Marseilles.

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