Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Flight Lieutenant V. E. Jackson, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, late Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Air Force, who served as an Aerial Gunlayer with No. 3 Wing at Dunkirk

British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut. V. E. Jackson, R.A.F.), good very fine (2) £100-120

Vincent Edmund Jackson was born in Hornsey, Middlesex, in July 1897, and entered the Royal Naval Air Service as an Air Mechanic 1st Class (Driver) in July 1915. However, as verified by accompanying research, he subsequently qualified as an Aerial Gunlayer in June 1916, in which capacity he went on to serve with No. 3 Wing at Dunkirk, prior to returning home for an officer’s course in December 1917. Duly appointed a Probationary Flight Officer, he attended pilot training courses at Greenwich, Reading and Chingford in early 1918, prior to being taken on the strength of the newly established Royal Air Force as a 2nd Lieutenant, and in the period July-November 1918 he served in the carriers Furious and Argus.

Placed on the Unemployed List in February 1919, Jackson was recalled as a Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve on the renewal of hostilities, and died of injuries sustained on 22 June 1940, when he fell from a carriage in the Great Western Railway Tunnel at Newport, Monmouthshire. He was 42 years of age and left a widow, Lilian May, of Southgate, Middlesex, and was buried in Llantwit Major Cemetery, Wales; sold with copied service records.