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• Name JACKSON
• Initials RD
• First name RICHARD DESMOND
• Place of birth Gilgandra
• Country New South Wales, Australia
• Family Son of Desmond and Eva Alice May Jackson, of "Castlereagh," Meynott St., Randwick, New South Wales

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Enlisted in Liverpool on 20 March 1915
• Service number 899
• Rank Private
• Regiment and unit 20th Bn. Australian Infantry
• Division - Brigade 5th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 2nd Australian Division
• National force A.I.F.
• Other data related to military career Embarkation in Sydney on 25 June 1915; returned to Australia and embarkation in Sydney on 9 September 1916; to France on 14 December 1916

Death

• Wounded Sore heels, to hospital on 1 February 1917; back to unit on 3 March 1917
• Type of wounds Died of shrapnel wounds on head at n°3 Canadian CCS
• Date of death 6 October 1917
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XX - G - 2

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