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JACKSON, George William
(Service number 7/352)

Aliases
First Rank Trooper Last Rank Corporal

Birth

Date Unknown Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date Age
Address at Enlistment Bell's Boardinghouse, Moorehouse Avenue, Christchurch, New Zealand
Occupation
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status Single
Next of Kin George John Jackson (father), 16 South Street, Kuripuni, Masterton, New Zealand
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with NZ Armed Forces Served in army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation Main Body
Unit, Squadron, or Ship Canterbury Mounted Rifles
Date 16 October 1914
Transport Tahiti and/or Athenic
Embarked From Lyttelton, Canterbury, New Zealand Destination Suez, Egypt
Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date 16 July 1915 Age 25
Place of Death Egypt
Cause Died of disease
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery Cairo War Memorial Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials On Memorial wall, Timaru; Waimate First World War Memorial

Biographical Notes

George Jackson was the son of G. I. and A. C. Jackson, of Masterton, New Zealand.

Sources

Cenotaph databse [August 2013]

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Researched and Written by

Dave Batchelor (South Canterbury Museum)

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