Norman Halsall Jackson

Rank:SergeantNumber:749426
Ship/Rgn/Sqn No:022 Sqn RAFVR
Name of Rgt or Ship:Coastal Command
Died:29/10/1940Age:23
Country of burial:U.K.Grave Photo:No
Cemetery or Memorial:Birch in Rusholme (St. James) Churchyard
Town Memorial:Not Listed
Extra Information:
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner.

Flying with 22 Sqn a four man crew took off at 05.30 hours from RAF North
Coates, Lincolnshire, in a Beaufort Mk.i - No. L9800 - OA-D for a "Rover"
Patrol.    Shortly after take off they experienced problems and crashed
into the sea half a mile off-shore.    The body of the pilot - Sgt. J.P.
Rylands was never recovered and he is commemorated on the Runnymede
Memorial.    Sgt. D.D. Palmer is buried at Ryde, Sgt. P.W. Ripley at Bognor
Regis and Sgt N.H. Jackson at Manchester (Southern) Cemetery.

W.e.f. 8th April 1940 - 22 Sqn was detailed to RAF North Coates,
Lincolnshire, situated 5 miles south-east of Grimsby on the Humber
Estuary.

Sale R.U.F.C. centenary book states that he was killed while flying.

Commemorated on the Screen Wall at Manchester (Southern) Cemetery.

Memorials found on:
Sale R.U.F.C.
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