Service Details
Name:
 NICHOLSON
Given Name:
 JOSEPH JOHN GORDON
Initials:
 J J G
Service No:
 1338154
Trade:
 Pilot
Rank:
 Flight Sergeant
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Regiment:
 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
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Date of Death:
 1944-04-12
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Age:
 28
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Stirling LJ540, airborne from Wigsley for a long night navigation and bombing exercise at the Bassingham ranges. Whilst in the range area, shot down at 0125 by Me410 intruder thought to be from 2/KG51. Aircraft crashed at Hilltop Farm, Caythorpe. The farmer, Mr Theaker, erected a memorial at the crash site.
Additional
Information:
Son of Joseph and Jane Nicholson; husband of Joan Nicholson, of Witbank, Transvaal, South Africa.
Commemoration
Country:
 United Kingdom
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Locality:
 Nottinghamshire
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Cemetery:
 THORNEY (ST. HELEN) CHURCHYARD
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Grave Reference:
 Grave 545.

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