Photo: B. Chandler
The headstone reads:
In proud remembrance
George Trueman Jobson
Sgt./Obs. R.A.F. V.R.
born 8th March 1922, killed 28th Nov. 1942
Also in ever loving memory of
our dear mother
Mary Edith Jobson
who died 11th September 1961
And of our dear father John Jobson
who died 7th February 1970 aged 91 years.
(There may be another line which is obscured)
Sgt (Air Bomber) G T Jobson of 75 Sqn was killed in Short Stirling BF399 AA-O, which crashed on a training mission on November 28th 1942. It came down in farmland near RAF Oakington after stalling trying to avoid a head-on collision with another Stirling.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1942; W.R. Chorley; 1994; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 89 X page 266
Acknowledgements: Simon Glancey
"In This Quiet Lane" Chevington and Broomhill in World War Two ; J.H. Hardy; 200; Glen Graphics; ISBN 1 900038 75 7
George T. Jobson is remembered in Alnwick on A11.17 A11.53 and in Chevington on C27.01
