THE FINE SECOND WAR GROUP TO A 20-YEAR-OLD WELLINGTON BOMBER PILOT WHO WAS KILLED IN ACTION IN JUNE 1943 ON THE RETURN FROM AN SORTIE TO DÜSSELDORF. HIS AIRCRAFT BEING HIT BY FLAK OVER THE DUTCH COAST, HE SOMEHOW MANAGED TO GET HIS AIRCRAFT BACK TO ENGLAND BEFORE CRASH LANDING IN NORFOLK, KILLING BOTH PILOT AND NAVIGATOR A DETAILED ACCOUNT OF EVENTS BEING LEFT BY A SURVIVING CREWMEMBER

1939-45 STAR, 1 CLASP, BOMBER COMMAND, THE CLASP IN ITS NAMED BOX OF ISSUE; AIR CREW EUROPE STAR; DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS 1939-45, THE MEDALS IN AIR MINISTRY CARD BOX OF ISSUE ADDRESSED TO HIS FATHER ‘F. W. JACKSON, ESQ., 708 FROBISHER HOUSE, DOLPHIN SQUARE, LONDON, S.W.1.’

Frank Whitford Jackson was born at Dublin, Eire, on 1 April 1923, son of Major Frank Whitford Jackson, D.S.O. In 1938 he was Captain of Beaumont College, Old Windsor, and is shown as a student upon enlisting as an A.C.2 on 5 March 1941. He became a L.A.C. in November 1941 until September 1942 when he was appointed to a temporary commission in the General Duties branch of the R.A.F.V.R. Following flying training in the U.S.A. and with 15 (O.T.U.), he was appointed Flying Officer on 25 March 1943, and joined No. 196 Squadron on 3 May 1943. He was killed in action on the night of 11-12 June 1943 when piloting a Wellington bomber on a mission to Düsseldorf. Both Jackson and his Navigator, Flying Officer R. P. Lea, were killed after their plane had been badly damaged by flak and crashed near Docking, Norfolk. There were three survivors, the wireless operator, the bomb aimer and the rear gunner, the latter being Ivor Prothero who gave the following account of the fate of their Wellington X MS486 ZO-R…………………

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Flying Officer Pilot Frank Whitford Jackson, aged 20, is buried in New Hunstanton Cemetery, Norfolk.

Condition EF. Sold with copied R.A.F. record of service and transcript of Ivor Prothero’s account written in about 1975.