BORN HULL 03/02/1894. SON OF ALFRED JACKSON (SHIPWRIGHT) & CHARLOTTE ELLEN JACKSON, OF 15 CHANCE STREET, LANDPORT, PORTSMOUTH. HIS FATHER WAS A SHIPWRIGHT WORKER.
WALTER JACKSON SERVED AS ACTING CORPORAL, IN THE ROYAL MARINE LIGHT INFANTRY. HE DIED OF WOUNDS, AT GALLIPOLI, ON 24/05/1915, AGED 24. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE HELLES MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING AT GALLIPOLI.
HIS BROTHER, HARRY JACKSON, ALSO SERVED IN THE ROYAL MARINES AND WAS KILLED AT JUTLAND, HMS “QUEEN MARY”, ON 31/05/1916, AGED 20.
First name:
WALTER
Military Number:
16250
Rank:
Acting Corporal
Date Died
24/05/1915
Place died:
Helles Memorial, Gallipoli, Turkey
Age:
24
15 CHANCE STREET, LANDPORT, PORTSMOUTH, HAMPSHIRE, SOUTH EAST ENGLAND, UK
