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Squadron Leader JOHN FRANCIS JACKSON

Service Number: 493
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Australian Air Force

Date of Death

Died 28 April 1942

Age 34 years old

Buried or commemorated at

PORT MORESBY (BOMANA) WAR CEMETERY

B2. C. 17.

Papua New Guinea

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  • Country of Service Australian
  • Awards Distinguished Flying Cross
  • Additional Info Son of William James Jackson and Edith Annie Jackson; husband of Elizabeth Helen Jackson, of Clayfield, Queensland.
  • Personal Inscription LIFE IS ETERNAL
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Buried or commemorated at

PORT MORESBY (BOMANA) WAR CEMETERY
Papua New Guinea
Number of casualties: 3826
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