Dawson,+John+William,

DAWSON, John William Sergeant, Flight Engineer,941538, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, No 218 (Gold Coast) Squadron, Downham Market, Norfolk. Killed in action on the 1st Oct 1942, age 29 in a Stirling Mk1 aircraft, serial No W7613, coded HA - N, on operations to Lubeck. Cause of loss not known. Crashed near Skallingen, Esjberg, Denmark. Son of John Margaret Ann Dawson, husband of Hilda Dawson of __Keighley__ (CWGC). However the Keighley News (10th Oct 1942), gives as husband of Mrs Dawson, 33 Main St, Sutton. He was a native of Steeton. Prior to Enlisting in the RAF he was employed by Messrs Atkinson & Sons, Builders of Eastburn. On the 24th Dec 1941, while converting on to Stirling at No 26 HCU at Waterbeach, Cambridge, he was involved in a flying accident. HIs rank at the time was Corporal, and he was a member of the crew of Stirling aircraft on a training flight from Waterbeach. The aircraft hit a tree during unauthorised low flying,and crashed at West End Farm, Kempston, S.W. of Bedford. 3 of the crew were killed and 6 including Cpl Dawson were badly injured See Keighley News, 10th January 1942, - injured. 10th Oct 1942 - missing Commemorated on the Sutton in Craven Memorial

Runnymede Memorial, Panel 81.