COLDICOTT Albert Douglas

  • First Name(s):
    Albert 
    Douglas 
  • Surname:
    COLDICOTT
  • Service Number:
    45813
  • Rank:

    Flight Lieutenant/Air Gunner

  • Conflict:
    WW2
  • Service:
    Air Force
  • Air Force:
    Royal Air Force
  • Air Force Unit:
    207 Squadron
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    13th May 1943
  • Age At Death:
    23
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Amersfoort (Oud Leusden) General Cemetery, Netherlands, Plot 13. Row 6. Collective grave 110-113.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of Albert William and Rose Edith Coldicott, of Worcester; husband of Phyllis May Coldicott, of Worcester

Remember The Fallen - Lest We Forget

COLDICOTT Albert Douglas Is Named On These Memorials

Worcester Royal Grammar School

Further Information About COLDICOTT Albert Douglas

Albert Coldicott attended Worcester Royal Grammar School from 1930 to 1936. In April 1942 he visited the school and described in detail to the senior boys, some of the raids he had taken part in. He married Phyllis Hill at St Stephen’s Church, Worcester in 1942. On the night of 12th/13th May 1943, Albert and his fellow crew members took off in their Lancaster bomber from their base at Langar on the border of Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire to take part in a raid on Duisberg, Germany. Just two hours later their aircraft crashed in Northern Holland, believed to have been the victim of a nightfighter. His wife gave birth to a baby daughter just over five months later.

Source for additional information: In Dedication to a Future World By Mark Rogers, 1999.

The following report appears in Berrow’s Worcester Journal, Saturday 27th April 1940:
Awarded D.F.M.
Corporal Albert Douglas Coldicott, 20-years-old R.A.F. wireless operator, son of Mr and Mrs A. W. Coldicott, 31 Sansome Walk, Worcester, has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal.
Corporal Coldicott joined the R.A.F. when he left Worcester Royal Grammar School at the age of 17.
He has received congratulatory telegrams from Air Vice Marshall A. T. Harris and from his Squadron Commander.
The report includes a photograph of Albert Coldicott.

Page 2474 THE LONDON GAZETTE, 26 APRIL, 1940:
Awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal.
621062 Acting Corporal Albert Douglas COLDICOTT.
In April, 1940, this airman was wireless operator and air gunner of an aircraft, piloted by Pilot Officer M. G. Homer, which attacked two enemy cruisers in Christiansand Bay. During the engagement with enemy fighters Corporal Coldicott shot one down which burst into flames and crashed into the sea. His own aircraft had been damaged, but by obtaining accurate bearings under difficult and harassing conditions he enabled his pilot to navigate the aircraft successfully to its home base.

Page 3616 THE LONDON GAZETTE, 20 June 1941:
Royal Air Force.
General Duties Branch.
The undermentioned are granted commissions for the duration of hostilities as Pilot Officers on probation:-
Temporary Sergeant
16th May 1941
621032 Albert Douglas Coldicott, D.F.M. (45813).

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Credits: Casualty and Berrow's Worcester Journal researched by Sandra Taylor.