People - Regiment: Royal Navy HMS "Europa"

Jackson, Edward

BORN HULL 25/11/1891. SON OF ANNIE JACKSON, OF 67 SEVERN STREET, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN THE ROYAL NAVY, ON 27/06/1908. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 11/07/1915, AGED 24. HIS BROTHER, BERTIE LIVED AT THIS NAVAL RECORDS ADDRESS. BURIED SKEW BRIDGE CEMETERY, CAPE HELLES, GALLIPOLI. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “THEIR GLORY SHALL NOT BE BLOTTED OUT”.

Jackson, Ernest

BORN HULL 1889. SON OF SGT, HORSON JACKSON, OF THE HULL CITY POLICE FORCE. A WELL KNOWN BANDSMAN AND CORNER PLAYER. HE SERVED IN THE ROYAL NAVY, ON HMS “EUROPA”. HE DIED OF WOUNDS, IN ALEXANDRIA, AGED 26. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL TIMES, ON 30/10/1915, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *