South Yorkshire Times, June 16th. 1951

Spent Leave in Hospital

Swinton Airman’s Adwick Accident

Every week-end without fail L.A.C. Alan Jackson, only son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Jackson, of  10, The Rise, Swinton, would come home to see his girl friend.

On Saturday Alan did not arrive. He spent his leave in the Montagu Hospital.

His mother had the dinner ready at 1 p.m.—the time he usually rode up to the gate on his motor cycle. He did not come. The dinner was put to warm and time still dragged by. A policeman called to tell her he had had an accident on his motor-cycle at Adwick-on-Dearne and was in hospital with head and leg injuries and abrasions to his face.

Returning from Full Sutton aerodrome, York, on his motor-cycle, Alan was in collision with a car between Adwick and Harlington. He was given first-aid by the car driver, Mr. E. Varney, of Barnsley Road, Wath, and was later taken to hospital in a police car.

On Sunday he was taken by R.A.F. ambulance to Knockton Hall R.A.F. hospital, Lincolnshire.

His mother, Mrs. L. Jackson, told a “South Yorkshire Times” reporter this week that before he had a motor-cycle seven months ago he used, to come home each week-end, but “saved up his money to buy a cycle to enable him to get home quicker.

On Tuesday Mrs. Jackson and Alan’s girl friend—Miss Irene Oates, of Foxland Avenue, Swinton—went to see Alan at Knockton Hall. “He was very cheerful,” said Mrs. Jackson, “and appeared- to be quite all right.

Alan is due for demobilisation in six months. He is a former pupil of Mexborough Grammar School and well known as a local preacher.