BORN HULL JUNE 1887. HULL PAL. SON OF ROBERT BRIEN & SARAH JACKSON,OF130 SEVERN STREET, HULL. A GENERAL LABOURER. ALSO PLAYED FOOTBALL FOR ST JUDES.
HIS WIFE, ANNIE, LIVED AT 16 CLUMBER STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS).
HE ENLISTED IN THE 11TH EYR (HULL PALS). SERVED IN EGYPT AND FRANCE. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 12/04/1918, AGED 30. (PHOTO – HULL DAILY MAIL 11/12/1918).
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE JOHN WILLIAM JACKSON 11/419. Born in Hull, John is another man suffering from a common name and no intact Military records. I know he enlisted at Hull City Hall on Monday 7th September 1914 joining the 11th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, ‘The Tradesmen’, 2nd Hull Pals. I know too that he served in Egypt, on the Somme and at Oppy Wood before falling prey to the German Spring Offensive on 12th April 1918. I also know his body was never recovered and his name is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial to those who fell in that sector but who have no known grave. You will be pleased to note this brings to an end the fatalities of April 12th. The four Pals Battalions having merged in February 1918, the casualties from the 12th and 13th end there. Before you heave a collective sigh of relief, June, August and September 1918 are worse.
