# Roy Orrock

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{{Infobox military person
|name              = Roy Kenneth Orrock
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|birth_date    = {{Birth date|1921|01|18|df=y}}
|death_date    = {{Death date and age|2002|07|11|1921|01|18|df=y}}
|birth_place   = Romford, Essex, England
|death_place   = Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge
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 |allegiance    = United Kingdom
|branch        = [Royal Air Force](/source/Royal_Air_Force)
|service_years  = 1940–1976
|rank          = [Air Commodore](/source/Air_Commodore)
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|unit          = [No. 22 Squadron RAF](/source/No._22_Squadron_RAF)<br>[No. 248 Squadron RAF](/source/No._248_Squadron_RAF) 
|commands      = [No. 248 Squadron RAF](/source/No._248_Squadron_RAF) (1945–46)<br/>[RAF Valley](/source/RAF_Valley) (1963–65)<br/>[Royal Observer Corps](/source/Royal_Observer_Corps) (1973–75)
|battles       = [Second World War](/source/Second_World_War)
|awards        = [Distinguished Flying Cross](/source/Distinguished_Flying_Cross_(United_Kingdom))
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[Air Commodore](/source/Air_Commodore) '''Roy Kenneth Orrock''' [DFC](/source/Distinguished_Flying_Cross_(United_Kingdom)) (18{{nbsp}}January 1921{{snd}}11{{nbsp}}July 2002) was a British pilot during the [Second World War](/source/Second_World_War) and a senior [Royal Air Force](/source/Royal_Air_Force) officer in the post-war years. He served as the fourteenth [Commandant Royal Observer Corps](/source/Commandant_Royal_Observer_Corps) from 1973 to 1975.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rafweb.org/Organsation/Grp09.htm|title=Units directly responsible to Ministry level|work=rafweb.org|accessdate=7 June 2015}}</ref> He was [Aide-de-camp](/source/Aide-de-camp) to [Queen Elizabeth II](/source/Queen_Elizabeth_II).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rafweb.org/Biographies/Orrock.htm |publisher=Air of Authority – A History of RAF Organisation|title= Air Commodore R K Orrock|accessdate=7 June 2015}}</ref>

During the Second World War, Orrock flew with [No. 22 Squadron RAF](/source/No._22_Squadron_RAF) flying the [Bristol Beaufighter](/source/Bristol_Beaufighter) moving to the Mediterranean in 1942 after which the unit was posted to North Africa and then the far east and later as [commanding officer](/source/commanding_officer) of [No. 248 Squadron RAF](/source/No._248_Squadron_RAF) flying the [de Havilland Mosquito](/source/de_Havilland_Mosquito). On 17 March 1945, whilst leading a strike force over [Ålesund](/source/%C3%85lesund_(town)), [Norway](/source/Norway), Orrock's aircraft was hit by flak, but he made a successful ditching and became a [POW](/source/POW) until the end of the war.

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.robbiereid.co.uk/rrdiary.html Banff Wing Strikes – Wing Commander R K Orrock]
*[http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1963/1963%20-%201483.html RAF Valley station commander – Gp Captain R K Orrock]

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Category:1921 births
Category:2002 deaths
Category:Military personnel from the London Borough of Havering
Category:Royal Air Force personnel of World War II
Category:English aviators
Category:People from Romford
Category:People of the Royal Observer Corps
Category:Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom)
Category:Royal Air Force air commodores

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