Derrick Cox                                 Updated: 15 JAN 2023

Airman: a103004.htm Surname: Cox Init: D Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 153

P_link: p407.htm Plane: LAN RA526 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Kattegat W of Samsø

Crash_d: d120345 Buried_d: b230745 C_link: c103.htm At_Next: Tranebjerg

Den 12. marts 1945 blev LAN RA526 skudt ned ud for Samsø. Flyvehistorisk Tidsskrift skriver:

"12.-13. marts 1945 (kl. 21.16). Farvandet V for Ringebjerge på Samsø (omkring her).
Lancaster B. I, RA526 (P4-.1). 153 BS, 1 BG, Scampton, Lincs. (minering i Kattegat). 

- Kl. 21.16 skød den tyske pilot, Major Werner Husemann, den første Lancaster ned.
RA526, ført af F/0 Kenneth Albert Ayres, DFC, styrtede brændende ned ud for Samsø's
vestkyst ved Ringebjerge. -" (FT 91-9-47) Sgt Cox blev fundet den 21. juli 1945 ved Lille Vorbjerg (omkring her). Han blev begravet i Tranebjerg af sognepræsten den 23. juli 2945. (Kilde: FAF)

Sergeant (Air Gunner) Derrick Cox, 20 år, var søn af Daniel Samson Cox og Leah Elisbeth Cox, Cradley Heath, Staffordshire, United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)

5 flyvere fra LAN RA526 drev ind på kysten af Samsø og blev begravet i Tranebjerg.
1 har ingen kendt grav og 1 blev krigsfange. 7 flyvere. (Se Minelægningsområder)

On 12 March 1945 LAN RA526 was shot down off Samsø. (Danish) Aviation Historical Review writes: "12.-13. March 1945 (21:16). The waters W of Ringebjerge on Samsø (about here).
Lancaster B. I, RA526 (P4-.1). 153 BS, 1 BG, Scampton, Lincs. (minelaying in the Kattegat). 

- At 21:16 the German pilot Major Werner Husemann shot down the first Lancaster.
RA526 piloted by F/O Kenneth Albert Ayres DFC crashed, burning, off the west coast of Samsø
at Ringebjerge. ” (FT 91-9-47) On 21 July 1945 Sgt Cox was found near Lille Vorbjerg (about
here). On 3 July 1945 he was buried in Tranebjerg by the Vicar. (Source: FAF)
(See Minelaying areas)

Sergeant (Air Gunner) Derrick Cox, 20, was the son of Daniel Samson Cox and Leah Elisbeth Cox, of Cradley Heath, Staffordshire, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, Panel 24.  

5 airmen from LAN RA526 drifted ashore and were buried in Tranebjerg Churchyard, 1 has no known grave and 1 became a POW.

See Lancaster-Wikipedia * Lancaster photos * RAF Scampton Station homepage and RAF Scampton at RAF-Lincolnshire.info.
Lancaster I RA526 P4-J took off from RAF Scampton at 17:35 on 12 MAR 1945. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) 7 airmen.