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Submitted by: Colin GregoryEmail: mailto:wairua2@outlook.comSubmitted Date: 26/8/19

Hi,Please see attached POW name submission form for my Great Uncle - 4467 Dvr A Jackson NZASC along with some photos and documents I thought you might find interesting.

Regards,Colin Gregory

Name: Alfred JACKSON (Jacko)

Nationality: New Zealand

Rank: Driver

Army Number: 4467

Regiment: NZASC – New Zealand Army Service Corps

POW Number: 5051

Captured: CreteDate of Capture: May/June 1941

Camp Type: Stalag

Camp Number: 8b

Camp Location: Lambinowice, Poland

Notes:

Dvr Jackson died in Stalag VIIIB/344 on 22 Apr 1944 from illness (pericarditis bacterial and endocarditis). He was buried in Lamsdorf cemetery (Section 1, Plot 1, Row 2, Grave 19) and then reinterred in the CWGC Rakowicki Cemetery in Krakow .

Photo of Alfred Jackson

Photo of Alfred’s Grave

Alfred’s Service Records:

Newspaper Clipping

Taken from Find My Past

First name(s) Alfred

Last name Jackson

Birth year 1919

Age 25

Death year 1944

Death date 22 Apr 1944

Number 4467

Rank Driver

Regiment New Zealand Army Service Corps

Grave reference 1A. B. 13.

Cemetery or Memorial Krakow Rakowicki Cemetery

Burial country Poland

Additional information Son of Leslie and Florence Jackson, of Auckland City, New Zealand.

Link https://www.cwgc.org/find/find-war-dead

War Second World War, 1939-1945

Record set Commonwealth War Graves Commission Debt Of Honour

Category Military, armed forces & conflict

Subcategory Second World War

Collections from Great Britain, UK None