BORN HULL 1893. SON OF HARRY JACKSON (1863-1942) & MARY CLARE FALLOWFIELD (1861-1929), OF 50 BRAZIL STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS) & 34 HESSLE ROAD, HULL. BROTHER OF DOUGLAS & SISTER GERTRUDE JACKSON. A BUSINESS ASSISTANT (1911 CENSUS).
HE MARRIED ROSE HILLS IN 1914. ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 13/11/1916, AGED 23. HIS COUSIN JACK STANLEY CLARK, WAS ALSO KILLED, ON 24/04/1916.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. Private, GEORGE STANLEY JACKSON 21569. Born in 1893 George was the second of three children to Harry and Mary Jackson of 50 Brazil Street, Hull. A Grocer’s Warehouseman by trade he enlisted on 9th December 1915 and was mobilized on 24th January. It is a reflection of the pressing need for manpower at the front that the Originals had trained for a year or more before sailing for Egypt, whereas new recruits at this stage in the war were given barely 5 months before being thrown into the trenches. George arrived in France on 26th May 1916 and joined the 12th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, 3rd Hull Pals. George Stanley Jackson was killed in action on 13th November 1916 at Serre on the Somme. His body was never recovered and his name is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial; he was 23 years old.
