Carlisle Francis JACKSON

JACKSON, Carlisle Francis

Service Number: 4455
Enlisted: 8 November 1915, Casula, NSW
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 20th Infantry Battalion
Born: Auburn, New South Wales, Australia, 1894
Home Town: Auburn, Auburn, New South Wales
Schooling: Auburn Boys Public School, News South Wales, Australia
Occupation: Greengrocer
Died: Killed in Action, France, 15 April 1917
Cemetery: Queant Road Cemetery, Buissy, France
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Memorials: Auburn Boys Public School Pictorial Honour Roll, Auburn Public School WW1 Honour Roll, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour
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World War 1 Service

8 Nov 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Corporal, 4455, 20th Infantry Battalion, Casula, NSW
9 Apr 1916: Involvement 4455, 20th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Nestor embarkation_ship_number: A71 public_note: ''
9 Apr 1916: Embarked 4455, 20th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Nestor, Sydney
15 Apr 1917: Involvement Private, 4455, 20th Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 4455 awm_unit: 20 Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1917-04-15

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Son of Robert and Agnes Jackson, 59 Alice Street, Auburn, New South Wales

PRIVATE C. F. JACKSON.
A severe blow fell on Mr. Robert Jackson, of Alice street, Auburn, last week, when he was oflicially notified that his young son,  Private Carlisle Francis Jackson, had been killed in action in France. The brave lad was one of two sons left of a family of seven  children and he was practically the sole support of his aged father. His mother had also died. The remaining son has for a long  time been in delicate health and is away in the country at present. For a time he lost his sight, and on regaining it he became  deaf. The doctor (a specialist) has now hopes that he will regain his hearing. Between these two sons there is a difference in age  of six years, and strange to say they were, both bom on a Friday, exactly at the same hour (11.45 p.m.), and on the same date  (24th August). The deceased soldier was 22 years of age and carried on the business of greengrocer and fruiterer. He was a good shot with the rifle. He left for the front on 8th April, 1916, and was attached to A Company of the 20th Battalion. He was one of fifty soldiers) who had boon selected to bomb the enemy's trenches, and it was no doubt whilst on this hazardous expedition that he lost his life. He went away to the front as a corporal, but in the firing line he fought as a private. He was well known in  Auburn, and was well liked. His father was in business in Auburn as far back as 1888, and was one of the first, if not the very  first, to open a general store in that town. The sad intelligence of the father's loss was conveyed to him by the Rev. Walter Ellis.

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