BORN COTTINGHAM 1898. STEP SON OF ANDREW AKAM & SON OF EMMA JACKSON. HIS STEP FATHER WAS A BRICKLAYER LABOURER.
EX BLUNDELL’S PAINT WORKER. ENLISTED HULL. SERVED AS PRIVATE, 225306, 8TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED AT THE SOMME, ON 18/08/1916, AGED 18.
HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL. HE WAS BROTHER TO ALBERT AND EDITH JACKSON.
NOTE H. W. JACKSON IS LISTED ON HULL’S NICHOLSON STREET ROLL OF HONOUR.
First name:
HERBERT
Regiment:
Military Number:
225306
Rank:
Private
Date Died
18/08/1916
Place died:
Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France
Age:
18
