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• Name JACKSON
• Initials R
• First name ROBERT
• Place of birth Ebberston
• Country Yorkshire, England
• Last residence Colchester
• Family Son of John Thomas Jackson and Mary (Polly) Cross. Seven brothers: George Ernest, Matthew William, Thomas Alfred, Fred Oswald, John Edgar, Charlie Cross and Wilfred.
  Married to Glady Violet English; one child, Robert Hazebrouck, born May 1915, when his father was stationed at Hazebrouck.
• Profession Labourer
• Extra info Two brothers died of wounds in WW1: Matthew William (25 April 1918) and George Ernest (6 June 1918)

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 1906
• Service number 9549
• Rank Company Serjeant Major
• Regiment and unit 2nd Bn. Durham Light Infantry
• Division - Brigade 18th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 6th Division
• National force B.E.F.
• Other data related to military career To the front January 1915

Death

• Type of wounds Died of gunshot wounds to the legs and hand, n°17 CCS
• Date of death 10 November 1915
• Died at the age of 27
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery IV - B - 8

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