Photo: Tony Hibberd
Photo: Tony Hibberd
Photo: Tony Hibberd
Photo: Tony Hibberd
Sgt. Jackson was serving with 1660 Heavy Conversion Unit. He was a crew member of Lancaster I R5676 which took off from Swinderby on a training flight. The aircraft broke up in flight. Near Sturton by Stow.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses Vol.8: Heavy Conversion Units and Miscellaneous Units, 1939-1947; W.R. Chorley; 2003; Midland Publishing; ISBN 1 85780 156 3
Tony Hibberd reports that there is a memorial to the crew members at Lancaster Farm, Sturton by Stow, Lincolnshire, and has sent in the photos shown here. It features the silhouette of a Lancaster Bomber with red poppiles below, and a plaque underneath.
The plaque reads:
In rememberance (sic) of the aircrew of Lancaster
Bomber R5676 Squadron 1660 H.C.U. which
crashed on this farm 12th February 1943.
Tragically all lives were lost.
F/O S. Rhy-Jones - Sgt. J. Westwood
F/O F.M. Krish - Sgt. T.H. Jackson
Sgt. W.T. Raeside - F/Sgt. G.W. Kennedy
P/O S. Hoy - Lac E.R. Redfern.
Thomas Henry Jackson is remembered at Coundon on C117.01
