Robert James JACKSON

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JACKSON, Robert James

Service Number:	9926
Enlisted:	20 October 1915
Last Rank:	Gunner
Last Unit:	1st Field Artillery Brigade
Born:	Terang, Victoria, Australia, 16 October 1892
Home Town:	Coogee, Randwick, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Commercial Traveller
Died:	Died of wounds, France, 29 July 1916, aged 23 years
Cemetery:	Etaples Military Cemetery Plot IX, Row B, Grave No. 6.
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

World War 1 Service

20 Oct 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Gunner, 9926, 1st Field Artillery Brigade
17 Dec 1915:	Involvement Gunner, 9926, 1st Field Artillery Brigade, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Berrima embarkation_ship_number: A35 public_note: ''
17 Dec 1915:	Embarked Gunner, 9926, 1st Field Artillery Brigade, HMAT Berrima, Sydney
29 Jul 1916:	Involvement Gunner, 9926, Battle for Pozières , --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 9926 awm_unit: 22nd Australian Field Artillery Battery awm_rank: Gunner awm_died_date: 1916-07-29

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Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks

Robert was taken on strength of the 21st Field Artillery Brigade on 15 May 1916. He was severely wounded by shell fragments on 27 July 1916 during the fiercest of bombardments near Pozieres.

He reached the Liverpool Merchants Hospital in Etaples, France but died of his wounds two days later.

His brother, 609 Bombardier Claude William Jackson 36th Australian Heavy Artillery Group, was later killed in action in Belgium on 4 October 1917.

His parents were Samuel and Harriet Jackson of Coogee, New South Wales.

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