Captain Frank Wigmore Jackson

The St Helens Newspaper & Advertiser
Courtesy Ste M

Regiment/Unit: Royal Engineers - 421st West Lancs Field Coy.
Theatre of War: France & Flanders
Theatre of War First Served: France
Date Entered Therein: 03/01/1915

Age at death: 21
Date of death: 9th of June 1917 (Saturday)
Born: St Helens, Lancs
Resided: St Helens, Lancs
Burial / Memorial: Cite Bonjean Military Cemetery Armentieres - VI. A. 28.

Family details:
Legion d'Honneur. Son of Col. R. Jackson, of Victoria Square, St. Helens, Lancs. Address from MIC: Cowley Hill St Helens.

Census details:
1901, aged 6, with parents Robert "M. B. Surgeon" and Cherith Jackson, siblings Norman (9), [cas=2373]John K.E. Jackson[/cas] (6) and servants at Cowley Hill. 1911 Census - The Jackson family lived at Balker Drive, St Helens. Robert Jackson, a 48 year old Surgeon, and his second wife, Gwendoline, had been married for 4 years. Robert's four children from his first marriage Norman Jackson (19), Cherith Annie (18), John Henneth Edward Jackson (16) lived with them, including Frank, a 15 year old scholar.

Notes:
[note=106]Two Jackson brothers who died in The Great War[/note] [url=lmem.php?lmem=21]Remembered On St Marks War Memorial, North Road.[/url] M.C. [Territorial]

[center][pic2]imgs/S1PWHYAOTV/Capt_F_W_Jackson_Echo19170612_zpse664c1e7.png[/pic2][/center][caption]Liverpool Echo 12/06/1917.[/caption] [pic]imgs/WW1_ext/lg19160222c.png[/pic] [pic]imgs/WW1_ext/lg19160222b.png[/pic] [pic]imgs/WW1_ext/lg19160222a.png[/pic] [caption]London Gazette, 16th February 1916[/caption] [pic]imgs/WW1_misc/Jackson_FW_RE_a.jpg[/pic] [pic]imgs/WW1_misc/Jackson_FW_RE_b.jpg[/pic] [pic]imgs/WW1_misc/Jackson_FW_gallantr_award.jpg[/pic][caption]The St Helens Newspaper & Advertiser - Courtesy Ste M.[/caption] [pic]imgs/sppics/FW_Jackson_RE.jpg[/pic][caption]The headstone of Captain Frank Wigmore Jackson MC at Cite Bonjean Military Cemetery, Armentieres (Photograph courtesy of R Houghton)[/caption]