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Born in Luton, Bedfordshire, Wilcock was educated at Street Dunstan"s College in Catford. At the end of the war Wilcock studied engineering at the University of Edinburgh before rejoining the Royal Air Force with northern
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He had joined the 14th London Regiment (London Scottish) in 1912 and served with them in the First World War, later transferring to the Queen"s Royal West Surrey Regiment. 208 Squadron in Egypt and Constantinople from 1921 to 1923. He alternated between home postings dealing with administration, and engineering work on Royal Air Force bases (including in Iraq until 1932).
Among his posts was assisting at the Experimental Establishment in Felixstowe.
From July 1935 he was on administrative duties at Ruislip, where he founded one of the first Volunteer Reserve Squadrons in 1937. Retiring in September 1938 with the rank of Group Captain, Wilcock became a broker and underwriter at Lloyd"s of London.
He was a Freeman of the City of London. On the outbreak of the he offered his services and was made an Air Ministry civil servant (Deputy Director of Manning), and ultimately rose to Senior Personnel Officer for Royal Air Force Transport Command.
He was awarded the Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1944.
After the Boundary Commission split Derby into two single-member seats, Wilcock was elected for Derby North from 1950. He specialised in aviation issues, and was Chairman of a departmental committee on training and recruitment for civil aviation from 1946 to 1949. He was also made a Director of several aviation companies, including Derby Aviation.
Moderate in his politics, Wilcock was not a frequent speaker in the House of Commons, but he was respected for his knowledge of his subject.
He had six children. He died in Westminster.
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41st United Kingdom. 42nd United Kingdom
Wounded at Ypres, he was seconded into the Royal Flying Corps in June 1917 on his recovery, and he became a founding member of the A member of the Labour Party and the Fabian Society since 1921, Wilcock was chosen in February 1945 as one of the Labour candidates for Derby, a two-member constituency.
He was made a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and also developed an interest in health, being a member of the Medical Research Council and a Governor of Westminster Hospital.
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Labour Party