LEST WE FORGET
Flying Officer George Alexander JACOBSON
Service No: 22102
Born: Gympie QLD, 25 March 1917
Enlisted in the RAAF: 5 April 1940
Unit: No. 514 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Waterbeach
Died: Air Operations: (No. 514 Squadron Lancaster aircraft GS682), North Sea, 23 April 1944, Aged 27 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Charles and Elizabeth Agnes Jacobson, of Gunalda, Queensland, Australia
Roll of Honour: Tiaro QLD
Remembered: Panel 257, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey UK
Remembered: Panel 124, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 2258 hours on the night of 22 April 1944 Lancaster GS682 took off from Waterbeach to attack Dusseldorf, Germany. The aircraft was carrying 1 x 8000 lb bomb and incendiaries, 9000 rounds of ammunition and 1360 gallons of petrol for 6.5 hours flying time. The anticipated duration of the mission was 4 hours 7 minutes. At 0236 hours, GS682 sent out a distress message giving position 5236N, 0315E, but nothing further was heard from the aircraft after this message. Two bodies were later recovered from the sea in the Frisian Island area and the five remaining members of the crew are recorded as missing lost at sea.
The crew members of GS682 were:
Sergeant Ernest Gledhill (1516394) (RAFVR) (Wireless Operator/Air)
Flight Sergeant Alan William Green (1576157) (RAFVR) (Navigator)
Sergeant Herbert Stanley Hayward (1151568) (RAFVR) (Rear Gunner)
Flying Officer George Alexander Jacobson (22102) (Air Bomber)
Flying Officer Maurice Linden Morgan-Owen (151873) (RAFVR) (Pilot)
Sergeant Henry Sadler (535804) (RAF) (Flight Engineer)
Sergeant Alfred Douglas Tetley (614774) (RAF) (Mid Upper Gunner)
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, 166/20/119