Name
Ernest Edward Jackson
Circa 1896
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
17/11/1916
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
2276
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
WARLOY-BAILLON COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
IV. D. 13.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Ware Town Memorial, St Mary’s Church Memorial, Ware, Christchurch Memorial, Ware, Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Born in 1896 in Ware, Hertfordshire son of John and Martha Jackson.
In 1891 before Edward's birth the family were living at Dickson’s Yard, Ware and this census reveals older siblings of John, Sylvesta (later Sylvia) and Edith.
In 1901 the family were living at 2 Chapel Yard, Amwell End, Ware, Hitchin. Present were both parents: John (42) and Martha (39), with John working as a barge labourer. Their children were: Edith, Peter (7) and Ernest (5).
By 1911 all the children were absent from the census except Edward. They were living at 6 London Road, Ware, Herts. Edwards was 15 and working as a domestic errand boy.
His service number indicates that enlisted in the Herts Territorials between 28 January 1913 and 1 January 1914. Territorials were not required to fight overseas, however Ernest, as with many others, volunteered to do so and he went to France with his regiment on 5th November 1914.
Officially Ernest was recorded as born, living and enlisting in Ware.
Wartime Service
Ernest landed in France on 6 November 1914 and first came under shellfire just five days later.
He was admitted to No. 4 Stationary Hospital on 9 February 1915, with frost bite to his feet. These records record him as 36 years old and having served for 16 months, however we are confident, from other records, that this age must have been incorrect as he would only have been 19 or 20.
He took part in several battles around Bethune in 1915 and the battle of Loos, the battalion moved to the Somme where it took part in the Battle of the Ancre and it would seem that it was during this attack that Ernest was wounded and he died of his wounds at the 2/1st South Midland Casualty Clearing Station Special Hospital at Warloy on 17/11/16 and is buried at Warloy Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension
Additional Information
After his death £5 13s 2d was authorised to go to his sister, Mrs Sylvia Pratt, on 13 April 1917. Later, a war gratuity of £10 was authorised to be paid to her on 17 December 1919.
The fourth medal shown in the photograph is a Hertfordshire County Council School medal awarded and named to Ernest Edward Jackson for good conduct & perfect attendance for 2 years.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Jonty Wild
