Name
Harry Jackson
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/08/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
91031
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 154 to 159.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Hitchin memorials*1
Pre War
Harry was born in Hitchin and recorded as enlisting in Louth, Lincolnshire.
*1 This man does not appear on the Hitchin memorials, however a C H Jackson does. It is thought that his full name was Charles Henry Jackson - it could be that he was known as Harry, is this man, but recorded on the memorial under his full name.
Wartime Service
At the time that he was killed in action on the 22nd August 1917 in Belgium was serving with the 32nd Company, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry). He had previously served as No. DM2/230838 in the Royal Army Service Corps.
He has no known grave(*2) and is remembered on Panels 154-159 & 163A of the Tyne Cot Memorial to the Missing near Ypres in Belgium.
Additional Information
*2 His named cross was recorded as in New Irish Farm (30/12/1919) in Plot 12. D. 1., map ref: 28.C.4.a.5.2. it read "R.I.P In Loving Memory of 91031. Pte H Jackson 32 M.G.C K. in Action. however it is recorded that no remains were found when the cemetery was excavated to concentrate the graves in to bother location.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild
