Herbert Winkfield JACKSON

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Sergeant A/178 HERBERT WINKFIELD JACKSON. Hong Kong Police Force. Died 23/09/1945 aged 30 as the direct result of a shark attacks.
Wills and Admin, Ancestry. His residence in England was Hunt Lane, Taplow, Buckinghamshire died 24 September 1945 at Hong Kong. His effects went to John Jacob Jackson, farm manager.
At rest in Stanley Military Cemetery, Hong Kong

The following extract credit to Battle for Hong Kong and Military History by Philip G Cracknell
Jackson, Herbert Winkfield (27/10/1912 – 23/9/1945)
He was a Police Sgt who tragically died just after the war ended whilst still in Stanley Camp. He was swimming at Tweed Bay Beach when a shark attacked him. He died from shock and loss of blood after he was dragged ashore. "Some forty years ago when I was interviewing former Stanley internees, Mrs Irene Braude told me she was on the beach the day Sgt Jackson was attacked by the shark and helped to pull him out of the water. The shark had bitten Jackson's leg and he bled to death." (Source: Geoffrey Emerson). John Stanton, a teenage boy was also on the beach that day with his friends. "We heard a cry for help. We all jumped in and swam to the rock and splashed to frighten the shark off. We brought him back to the beach covered in blood, his left buttock missing." (Source: J.K. Stanton's Memoires IWM). An Australian newspaper reports that Captain A.M. Braude of HK Telephone Co rescued him. The news report goes on to say that large sharks have not been seen in Hong Kong bathing waters and it is believed this one followed a ship.