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Henry Jackson
British Army officer

Henry Jackson

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British Army officer
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93 years
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Distinguished Service Order
 
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath
 
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George
 
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Biography

General Sir Henry Cholmondeley JacksonKCB CMG DSO(12 August 1879 – 19 October 1972) was a British Army General who achieved high office in the 1930s.

Military career

Jackson was commissioned into the 1st Bedfordshire Regiment in 1899. He then became Adjutant at the Mounted Infantry School at Longmoor in 1908. He served in World War I and by the end of the War had become General Officer Commanding 50th (Northumbrian) Division.

After the War he became Commander of 5th Infantry Brigade from 1919 and then Commandant at the Machine Gun School at Netheravon from 1924 before moving on to become Director of Military Training at Army Headquarters in India in 1926. He was appointed Commander 2nd Division in 1931, Colonel of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment in 1935 and then General Officer Commanding-in-Chief for Western Command in 1936. He retired in 1939.

He lived at Piddletrenthide near Dorchester in Dorset.

Family

In 1919 he married Dorothy Nina Seymour.

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