JACKSON, Herbert Allan
| Service Number: | 2303 |
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| Enlisted: | 27 July 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 20th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, 19 July 1895 |
| Home Town: | Bathurst, Bathurst Regional, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Bathurst Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Shop assistant, Tramway Workshop Employee |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 21 May 1916, aged 20 years |
| Cemetery: |
Brewery Orchard Cemetery, Bois-Grenier Plot IV, Row B, Grave No. 16 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Glebe Roll of Honor, Glebe Superior Public School WWI Memorial, Glebe War Memorial, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| 27 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2303, 20th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 30 Sep 1915: | Involvement Private, 2303, 20th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Argyllshire embarkation_ship_number: A8 public_note: '' | |
| 30 Sep 1915: | Embarked Private, 2303, 20th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Argyllshire, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Herbert Jackson was the son of William and Emma Jackson and young husband of Rose Jackson, Victoria Road, Punchbowl, Sydney, NSW. He left an infant son as well, born in 1914.
His young wife, Rose, filled out his roll of honour form. She was obviously very proud of him. "He was very clever, he made a wireless, sending and receiving before he was 18 years of age. He underwent military training from the age of 14 to 18 years when he enlisted. He was always fond of the military and was very anxious to answer his King and country from the beginning of the war. He served in the war for 7-8 weeks on the Peninsula and then as far as I know in the Suez by his letters and then in France. Killed 21 May 1916."
His brother 1378 Pte. Ernest Jackson 3rd Battalion was severely wounded at Gallipoli just after the Landing and eventually returned to Australia later in 1915.
Biography contributed by John Oakes
Alan Herbert JACKSON (as he signed his name) was born in Bathurst on 19th July 1895. In August 1910 he joined the Tramways as a shop boy at the Randwick Workshops. They recorded his name on his employee card as ‘Herbert Allen Jackson’. In August 1915 he was released from duty to enlist in the AIF at Liverpool. He was aged 20. his Service Number was 2303. He nominated as his next of kin his wife, Rose.
He embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT ‘Argyllshire’ with reinforcements in September 1915. He was ‘taken on strength’ by the 20th Battalion at Gallipoli in November 1915. He returned to Alexandria with them in January 1916. In March he was sent to France.
He was ‘killed in action by a bomb’ (probably what would later be known as a hand grenade) on 21st May 1916. He was buried in Brewery Orchard Cemetery, Bois Grenier, 2¼ miles S of Armentières.
War pensions were granted by the authorities to his widow and a son, also named Alan.
- based on the Australian War memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.