Norman Jackson                                                                                     Updated: 17 MAR 2022

Airman: e444019.htm Surname: Jackson Init: N Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 218

P_link: p094.htm Plane: STI N6129 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: North Sea off Rømø

Crash_d: d290742 Buried_d: e444 C_link: e444.htm At_Next: GERMANY See Overview.

Den 29. juli 1942 styrtede STI N6129 i Nordsøen vest for Rømø (måske omkring her) under et bombetogt til Hamborg. Hele besætningen omkom. p094MACR.

R. C. Eldridge og R. K. Helyer blev fundet drevet i land på Rømø den 30. juli 1942. Den 1. august blev de begravet i Kirkeby af feltpræst Bukin, Sild. (Kilde: FAF)
R. S. Brandish, N. Jackson og H. Windle blev begravet i Kiel i Tyskland. C. M. Farquharson og R. D. Horder forsvandt i havet.

Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) Norman Jackson, 26 år, var søn af George Jackson og Edith Jackson (f. Ridyard); gift med Marion Jackson, Wakefield, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.Han blev begravet på KIEL WAR CEMETERY 4. F. 4. i TYSKLAND. (Kilde: CWGC) Se Overblik.

2 flyvere fra STI N6129 blev begravet i Kirkeby på Rømø. 3 blev begravet i Kiel i Tyskland. 2 har ingen kendt grav. 7 flyvere.

On 29 July 1942 STI N6129 crashed in the North Sea west of Rømø (maybe about here) on a bombing raid on Hamburg. All of the crew perished. p094MACR.

R. C. Eldridge and R. K. Helyer were found drifted ashore on Rømø on 30 July 1942.
On 1 August they were buried in Kirkeby. Army Chaplain Bukin from Sylt (here) officiated at the graveside ceremony.

R. S. Brandish, N. Jackson and H. Windle were buried in Kiel in Germany. C. M. Farquharson and R. D. Horder disappeared into the sea.

Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) Norman Jackson, 26, was the son of George Jackson and of Edith Jackson (née Ridyard), and the husband
of Marion Jackson, of Wakefield, Yorkshire, United Kingdom. He was buried in KIEL WAR CEMETERY 4. F. 3. in GERMANY. (Source: CWGC) See Overview.
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 188.

2 airmen from STI N6129 were buried in Kirkeby on Rømø. 3 were buried in Kiel in Germany. 2 airmen have no known grave.

See No. 218 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia * History of No 218 Squadron RAF *  Short Stirling

Stirling I N6129 HA-X took off from RAF Marham at 23:27 on 28 JUL 1942. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this with Notes.) 7 airmen.