{"id":495,"date":"2019-10-25T07:52:26","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T07:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/?page_id=495"},"modified":"2021-05-04T05:08:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T05:08:56","slug":"jacobsen-alexander","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/raf\/jacobsen-alexander\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacobsen, Alexander"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Air Bomber, 57 Squadron
Service number 1318066
Died 9 January 1943
Buried Amersfoort (Oud Leusden) General Cemetery, Netherlands
Age 19<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Headstone Inscription
‘IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY DEAR SON ALEXANDER. MAY HIS BRAVE YOUNG SOUL REST IN PEACE’<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Alexander was born in 1923 in Newton Abbot, Devon to Samuel and Kathleen n\u00e9e Barrett and had a younger brother Louis. Their father Samuel was a travelling cotton salesman. Samuel was born in Prestwich, Manchester and was previously married to Dora Cohen, and had two children Daniel and Maud ‘Alty’. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Alexander was the observer on Lancaster ED319 which departed RAF Scampton on a night operation to Essen. During the inbound flight over Holland they encountered Luftwaffe night fighters. The aircraft was intercepted by Lt. Erich Richter of 2.\/NGJ his second claim of the war. The aircraft crashed at Haarzuilens 12 km NW of Utrecht with the loss of all crew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pilot, Sgt. David Stanley Warlow, RNZAF, 414705
F\/E, Sgt. Vincent John Mervyn Donaldson, 574813
Nav, Sgt. Alexander Jacobsen
A\/B, Sgt. Robert Elwyn Roberts, 1389926
W\/Op A\/G, Sgt. Jack Webber, 1377524
A\/G, Fl\/Sgt. William Albert Gillen, RCAF, R\/135059
A\/G, Sgt. George Roe, 1576603 <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n