George Thomas JACKSON

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JACKSON, George Thomas

Service Numbers:	1151, 1151A
Enlisted:	6 December 1915, 1.5 years Lt Senior Cadets, 6 years 4th AIR
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	53rd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Waratah, New South Wales, Australia, 1 July 1884
Home Town:	Minmi, Newcastle, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Miner
Died:	Killed in Action, France, 25 October 1916, aged 32 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Minmi Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)

6 Dec 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1151, 35th Infantry Battalion, 1.5 years Lt Senior Cadets, 6 years 4th AIR
1 May 1916:	Involvement Sergeant, 1151, 35th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: ''
1 May 1916:	Embarked Sergeant, 1151, 35th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Sydney
12 Oct 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 53rd Infantry Battalion
25 Oct 1916:	Involvement Private, 1151A, 53rd Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 1151A awm_unit: 53rd Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1916-10-25

Biography contributed by Evan Evans

From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery

Memorialised at Sandgate Cemetery, not forgotten.

106 years ago today, on the 25th October 1916, Private (not Sergeant) George Thomas Jackson, 53rd Battalion (Reg No-1151A), miner from Minmi, New South Wales, father of 1 daughter (Miss Sarah Elizabeth Jackson (Banister), born 2.12.1906, Minmi, N.S.W., of the Scott Memorial Hospital, Scone, N.S.W., from Clarence Town, N.S.W., died?), was Killed in Action at Villers-Bretonneux, France, age 32.

No Roll of Honour circular summited.

Born at Waratah, New South Wales on the 1st July 1884 to George Thomas (died 3.9.1897) and Sarah Jane Jackson nee Drinkwater (died 12.12.1932) husband of Beatrice May Jackson (Banister) nee Atmore, married 1906, Newcastle, N.S.W., divorced, date unknown, died 1965, George enlisted December 1915 with the 35th Battalion at Newcastle, N.S.W.

George’s name has been inscribed on the Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, France.

Mr. Jackson’s name has also been inscribed on the Minmi Roll of Honour (photos, unveiled on the 21st December 1917, 93 names originally inscribed, 11 Fallen, 146 names now inscribed (WW1 & WW2), 17 Fallen, located at the Minmi Progress Hall, 96 Woodford Street, Minmi, N.S.W.) and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.

George has been memorialised at his parent’s gravesite. ANGLICAN 1-46. 37.

Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.

For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/

Lest We Forget.

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