Private 10171 John Jackson
The St Helens Newspaper & Advertiser
Courtesy Ste M
Regiment/Unit: South Lancashire Regiment - 2nd Bn.
Theatre of War: France & Flanders
Date Entered Therein: 14/08/1914
Age at death: 40
Date of death: 20th of September 1914
Born: St Helens, Lancs
Resided: St Helens, Lancs
Burial / Memorial: La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre Memorial -
Family details:
Son of the late Tom and Martha Jane Jackson. next-of-kin from service papers: Mrs Margaret Jackson (sister?), 158 Newton Road, Parr, St Helens.
Notes:
CWGC give his age as 16. His service record shows his year of birth as 1874 and he was living at Greenbank when he enlisted in 1893.
CWGC give his age as 16. His service record shows his year of birth as 1874 and he was living at Greenbank when he enlisted in 1893.
[pic]imgs/WW1_memorials/LaFerteMemorial.jpg[/pic][caption]The panel on the La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre Memorial bearing the inscription for Private John Jackson
(Photograph Courtesy Ste M.)[/caption]
