Jackson, James Albert

Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE, JAMES ALBERT JACKSON 12/1259. Born in 1895, James was the second of eight children to William and Kathleen (Kate) Jackson of 72 Eton Street, Hessle Road, Hull. An Apprentice Shipwright before the war he enlisted at City Hall on 22nd December 1914 joining the 12th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, ‘The Sportsmen’, 3rd Hull Pals. James was killed in action on that dreadful day in front of Serre as the horror of the Somme reached its inevitable, tragic conclusion- 13th November 1916. He was listed originally as ‘wounded and missing’- a phrase which tells its own story- meaning someone saw him fall but was forced to fight on and leave him behind for the medics who clearly never found him. It also means his family were given the pain of hope which some would never surrender even when the war ended and prisoners were returned and their sons STILL hadn’t walked back up garden paths to their waiting arms. James Albert Jackson was never found, and his name is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial to the missing; he was 21 years old. Unmarried. His army effects were left to his mother, Kate


First name:
JAMES ALBERT
Military Number:
12/1259
Rank:
Private
Date Died
13/11/1916
Place died:
Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France
Age:
21
72 , ETON STREET, HESSLE ROAD, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK