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Surname: JACKSON
Forename(s): Christopher Harrison
Place of Birth: Westhouse, Yorkshire
Service No: 35524
Rank: Private
Regiment / Corps / Service: East Lancashire Regiment
Battalion / Unit: 8th (Service) Battalion
Division: 37th Division
Age: 19
Date of Death: 1917-08-09
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: A. 35.
CWGC Cemetery: KEMMEL CHATEAU MILITARY CEMETERY
CWGC Memorial: ---
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial: THORNTON-IN-LONSDALE, YORKSHIRE
Additional Information:
Christopher Harrison Jackson was the son of Robert James and Grace Jackson, née Harrison. Both parents were born at Austwick, Yorkshire.
1901 Westhouse, Yorkshire Census: Ellerbeck Farm - Christopher H. Jackson, aged 3 years, born Westhouse, son of Robert J. and Grace Jackson.
1911 Westhouse, Yorkshire Census: Ellerbeck Farm - Christopher H. Jackson, aged 13 years, born Westhouse, son of Robert J. James and Grace Jackson.
British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Pte Christopher H. Jackson, 35524, E. Lan. R.
British Army WW1 Medal and Award Rolls: Pte Christopher Harrison Jackson, 35524, 3rd East Lancs.; 8th East Lancs.
Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects: Pte Christopher Harrison Jackson, 3/35524, 8 B[n] East Lancs. Date and Place of Death: 9.8.17 in action France or Belgium. To whom Authorised/Amount Authorised: Mother and Sole Legatee - Grace. £6 0s. 4d.
Data Source: Craven’s Part in the Great War - original CPGW book entry
View Entry in CPGW BookEntry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record:
JACKSON, Christopher, aged 19, East Lancs. Regiment, Westhouse, [Ingleton], killed in action Aug. 9, 1917
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Private Christopher Harrison JACKSON
Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: East Lancashire Regiment
Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 37th Division
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24 August 1917
JACKSON – August 9th 1917, killed in action on the Western Front, Private Christopher Jackson, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jackson, Westhouse, Ingleton.
24 August 1917
INGLETON – WAR ITEMS
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jackson, of Westhouse, on Tuesday last received official intimation that their youngest son, Private Christopher Jackson, had been killed in action on the 9th inst., but particulars are not as yet forthcoming.
07 September 1917
INGLETON – THE LATE PRIVATE C. H. JACKSON
Particulars are now to hand of the death of Private C. H. Jackson, of Westhouse, who was killed in France on August 9th. Second-Lieut. H. Keynote has written to say that they were holding the line, and Pte. Jackson was lying down in a dugout when an enemy shell obtained a direct hit. Private Jackson was not hit in any way, but was killed instantaneously by concussion. His body was taken back to the camp behind the lines and buried.
Private John Wadeson, son of Sergeant J. H. Wadeson, has been gassed, and is now in hospital in France.
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24 August 1917
JACKSON – Aug. 9th, in France, Pte. Christopher Harrison Jackson, of the East Lancashire Regiment, son of Mr. and Mrs. R.J. Jackson, of Rock Villa, Westhouse, Ingleton, aged 19.
24 August 1917
INGLETON
ANOTHER LOCAL SOLDIER KILLED – News has been received by Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Jackson, of Rock Villa, Westhouse, that their youngest son, Private Christopher Harrison Jackson, of the East Lancashire Regiment, has been killed in action in France on August 9th. Private Jackson, who was only 19 years of age, joined the, army in November, 1916, and went out to France in April of this year. Prior to joining he assisted his brother, Mr. W. Jackson, butcher. Two other brothers are in the army, one in France and one in camp in England.
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