BORN HULL 1897. SON OF SAMUEL & MARY ELIZABETH (KIRBY) JACKSON, OF 30, RIPON TERRACE, BRUNSWICK AVENUE AND 11, FERN VILLAS, FERN STREET, HULL. BEFORE THE WAR HE WAS APPRENTICED TO MESSRS. HARLAND PRINTERS, OF HULL.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL SERVED WITH THE 1/4TH EYR. HAD BEEN AT THE FRONT FOR TWELVE MONTHS AND HAD NO HOME LEAVE SINCE BEING OUT. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, AT YPRES, ON 04/04/1916 AND IS COMMEMORATED ON THE MENIN GATE MEMORIAL.
HIS COMMANDING OFFICER REASSURINGLY TOLD HIS MOTHER THAT “HE WAS KILLED INSTANTLY IN HIS SLEEP” AND DESCRIBED JOHN JACKSON AS “ONE OF BEST LADS” IN THE PLATOON. HE WOULD BE GREATLY MISSED. HE WAS 19 YEARS OLD AND HIS BODY WAS NOT RECOVERED. HIS BEST MATE PTE, F.L “MICKY” BURGOYNE, FROM FIELD STREET, WAS KILLED THE SAME DAY, AGED 18. (HDM 22/04/1916)
HIS BROTHER, DRIVER, SAMUEL JACKSON, ARMY SERVICE CORPS, DIED OF WAR WOUNDS, ON 14/11/1919. (WAR RENSION RECORDS). NO CWGC RECORD.
