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Six: Pilot Officer D.E. Jackson, Royal Canadian Air Force, 1939-45 Star; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; Defence Medal 1939-45, silver; Canadian Voluntary Service 1939-45, with 'Overseas' clasp; War Medal 1939-45, silver, extremely fine, together with Memorial Cross, the reverse officially inscribed, 'P.O. D.E. Jackson, J85132' (6)
Six: Pilot Officer D.E. Jackson, Royal Canadian Air Force, 1939-45 Star; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; Defence Medal 1939-45, silver; Canadian Voluntary Service 1939-45, with 'Overseas' clasp; War Medal 1939-45, silver, extremely fine, together with Memorial Cross, the reverse officially inscribed, 'P.O. D.E. Jackson, J85132' (6)

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Six: Pilot Officer D.E. Jackson, Royal Canadian Air Force, 1939-45 Star; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; Defence Medal 1939-45, silver; Canadian Voluntary Service 1939-45, with 'Overseas' clasp; War Medal 1939-45, silver, extremely fine, together with Memorial Cross, the reverse officially inscribed, 'P.O. D.E. Jackson, J85132' (6)

Lot Essay

Sold with a wartime newspaper cutting which refers in detail to the recipient's gallantry in a flak-damaged Halifax returning from a raid on Leverskusen.

Pilot Officer Donald E. Jackson, a graduate of Patterson College, was in his final year as an apprentice to a chemist business in Wyandotte and Glengarry, when he enlisted for the Royal Canadian Air Force. Tragically he was killed when his Halifax of No. 434 Squadron crash landed in Yorkshire when returning from a sortie to the Heligoland Bight on 18.3.1944.