Name
Albert Edward Jackson
1886
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/10/1918
32
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
85535
Durham Light Infantry
15th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
AWOINGT BRITISH CEMETERY
I.G.11
France
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
St Mary the Virgin Roll of Honour, Welwyn, St Michael & All Angels Church Memorial (paper sheet), Woolmer Green, Not on the Datchworth memorials
Pre War
Albert Edward was born in 1886 in Datchworth, Herts the third son of John and Elizabeth Jackson (nee Skeggs), and one of eight children.
His family were living at Datchworth Green in 1891 when his father was a gardener and they had moved to Keepers Cottage, Datchworth by 1901, when age 14, he was working as an agricultural labourer.
He married Ethel Sear on 26 December 1914 at Christchurch, Roxeth, Harrow, London and they had a son Edward Douglas born 28 April 1919,
On enlistment, he was employed on the New Railway at enlistment. and living at 31 New Road, Woolmer Green, Knebworth, Herts.
Wartime Service
Albert enlisted in May 1916 in Hitchin and initially served with the Royal Engineers (Inland Waterways & Docks) with service no. 287758.
He was compulsory transferred, due to manpower shortage in the Infantry, on 18 May 1918 and served with the 15th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry in France and Flanders. He would have taken part in the British Hundred Days Offensive, but became a casualty and at the 59th Casualty Clearing Station he died as a result of his wounds on 25 Oct 1918. He is buried at Awoingt British Cemetery, France.
Additional Information
His widow received a war gratuity of £8 and pay owing of £15 2s. She also received a pension of £1 5s 5d a week for herself and her son.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper, Brenda Palmer
June Colegrove, Adrian Pitts, Pat Bird, Brenda Palmer
