Jacobson, Joseph Alfred (Flight Sergeant)

Killed in Action 1942-January-28

Flight Sergeant Joseph Alfred Jacobson RCAF

Birth Date: 1918-February-17

Born: Montreal Quebec

Parents: Son of Percy and May Silver Jacobson, of Westmount, Province of Quebec, Canada. B.Com. (McGill).

Spouse:

Home: Westmount, Quebec

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

106 Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Pro Libertate For freedom

Base

Rank

Flight Sergeant

Position

Observer

Service Numbers

R/56201

Final Burial
Google MapGeneral Cemetery
Coll grave 19-21
106 Squadron (Pro Libertate). Hampden aircraft AT 122 was carrying 1 x 1,000 and 2 x 500 lb. general purpose bombs when it went down over Holland during a bombing raid against Munster, Germany. Sergeants D.E. Hodgkinson (RAF), S.G. Harding (RAF), and Pilot Officer R.V. Selfe (RAF) were also killed. addendum 2: See page 357. The aircraft crashed near the German border at Lichtenvoorde. The crew was buried there and the Dutch Vicar who conducted the burial service was later arrested and sent to a concentration camp for the sympathetic content of his oration. Detail from the December, 2001 issue of "Short Bursts"