LEST WE FORGET
Sergeant Edgar Purton JACKSON
Service No: 400227
Born: Hawthorn VIC, 19 October 1919
Enlisted in the RAAF: 21 July 1940
Unit: No. 452 Squadron
Died: Air Operations: (No. 452 Squadron Spitfire aircraft AB852), France, 13 October 1941, Aged 21 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Walter Cyril Jackson and Iris Flora Jackson, of Preston, Victoria, Australia
Roll of Honour: Preston VIC
Remembered: Panel 62, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey UK
Remembered: Panel 105, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On a Circus mission on 13 October 1941, Spitfire AB852 flown by Sergeant Jackson was shot down by an Me109 over France. It was his first mission.
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records (RAAF Casualty Information compiled by Alan Storr (409804))
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 163/126/60