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stationed at Marham. With this squadron as the Wireless Operator/Air Gunner of Stirling bomber aircraft he participated on 18 Operational flights incluidng the targets of Duisburg, Fiensburg, Frankfurt, Kaasel, Nurnberg, Saarbrucken, Mainz, Bremen, Essen, Munich, Vegesack, Lubeck in Germany; Le Havre in France, minelaying in the Baltic Sea, the Frisian Islands (2) and to Kiel Bay.

Sergeant Parkinson was the Wireless Operator of a Stirling bomber aircraft which took off on air operations to the German target of Lubeck and failed to return to its base. All the members of the crew, including Sergeant Parkinson were classified as missing. Later information was received through the International Red Cross Committee from a German source that Sergeant Parkinson had lost his life and was buried in the Four Feldt Cemetery, Esbjerg, Denmark. In consequence he was reclassified to missing believed killed in action. In due course his death was officially presumd to have occurred on the 16th October 1942.

5/2/3931 A.S.2.
226 hours as Wireless Operator.

Mrs. I.A. Parkinson (M) (right aligned)
92 Flockton St., (right aligned)
St. Albans (right aligned)
CHRISTCHURCH (right aligned & underlined)