102 (Ceylon) Squadron

Tentate et perficite (Attempt and Achieve)

Pilot Officer Jackson Corwin Nixon R.C.A.F.

Whitley Z6946 took off from Topcliffe on the 3rd September 1941 bound for Frankfurt

Crashed 0355 in Rectory Lane. Kirton, 8 miles SE of Ipswich.

Jackson Nixon

F/S Seward Terry Modeland RCAF - Pilot - Aged 19 - (C.W.G.C.)
Sgt Donald Machell Bozer RCAF - 2nd Pilot - Aged 25 - (C.W.G.C.)
P/O Jackson Corwin Nixon RCAF - Aged - (C.W.G.C.)
Sgt Alexander Frederick Jaggers - WOp - Aged 21 - (C.W.G.C.)
Sgt L.M Bowen RCAF - Aged 26 - (C.W.G.C.)

A house known as 'The Haven' was badly damaged, as was the front of June Cottage. A four year old little girl was slightly hurt.

The force of the crash also fractured water mains in the area, as well as bringing down electricity cables.

 

Virtual War Memorial for Brantford and the County of Brant Jackson Corwin Nixon

P/O Jackson Corwin Nixon, older son of the Hon. H. C. Nixon, M.L.A., former Premier of Ontario, and former Provincial Secretary, and Mrs. Nixon, St. George, had chosen to become a farmer and follow in the footsteps of his father.

He had been educated at the St. George Public and Continuation Schools and had then attended the Ontario Agricultural College from where, in July, 1940, he graduated with a degree of B.S.A.

But the war interfered with such peaceful plans and a month after he had laid away his school books, he enlisted in the R.C.A.F.
The following April, he graduated as an air observer and received his commission. He had been overseas only a short time when, after a night bombing operation on Frankfurt, September 3, 1941, he lost his life.

One of Brant County's most promising young men was thus lost in the service of his country.
Some indication of the high esteem in which his family is held was the presentation to them of a portrait of P/O Nixon painted by the noted Toronto artist, J. E. Sampson, A.R.C.A., the gift being made by Premier Mitchell Hepburn, members of the Ontario Cabinet and department officials.

This article copied from:- HERE

 

Since the war, five pews in Kirton Parish Church have been named in remembrance of the crew.

Kirton Parish Church

 

 

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