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Flight Lieutenant Sydney Vivian Ackroyd JACKSON (89923)
Royal Air Force Date of birth: 2nd May 1908 Date of death: 21st September 1946 Died aged 38 Commemorated at Golders Green Crematorium Panel 2
Sydney Vivian Ackroyd Jackson was born at South Shields, County Durham on the 2nd of May 1908 the only son of the Reverend Horace Sydney Sylvester Jackson, Vicar of Monkseaton, and Ann Elizabeth (nee Turnbull) Jackson of Tynemouth. He was educated at Lancing College where he was in Seconds House from May 1922 to July 1927. He was a Sergeant in the Officer Training Corps and achieved Certificate A in 1926. He was appointed as a House Captain, a Prefect and as Head of House in 1926. He was married to Daphne Eileen (nee Logan) at St Matthew’s Church, Bayswater on the 11th of April 1931. They lived at Hornbeam Cottage, Brockhurst Wood, Eton in Berkshire. He worked as managing director of a company which distributed smokeless fuel in paper bags. He was commissioned as a Pilot Officer on probation in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve on the 10th of January 1941. He was confirmed in his rank on the 10th of January 1942 and promoted to temporary Flying Officer the same day. He was confirmed in the rank of Flying Officer on the 30th of April 1943. He was posted to the Administration and Special Duties Branch on the 27th of January 1944 and was promoted to Flight Lieutenant on the 1st of July 1945. He served with Bomber Command. He was commended by the King for “valuable service in the air” in the London Gazette of the 1st of January 1946. He died at the King Edward VII Sanatorium at Midhurst in Surrey.

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