Sir Henry Jackson
Henry Jackson, 1935
Born12 August 1879
Died19 October 1972 (aged 93)
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branch British Army
Years of service1899−1939
RankGeneral
Service number14063[1]
UnitBedfordshire Regiment
Commands held50th (Northumbrian) Division
5th Infantry Brigade
2nd Division
Western Command
Battles/warsFirst World War
AwardsKnight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George
Distinguished Service Order

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

Military career

King George V inspecting the 13th (Scottish Horse) Battalion, Black Watch (149th Brigade, 50th Division) on the Maubeuge-Avesnes road. With the King are General Sir Henry Rawlinson, Major-General Henry Cholmondeley Jackson and Brigadier-General Percy M. Robinson.

Jackson was commissioned into the 1st Bedfordshire Regiment in 1899.[2][3][4] He then became Adjutant at the Mounted Infantry School at Longmoor in 1908.[2] He became General Officer Commanding 50th (Northumbrian) Division on the Western Front in April 1918 during the First World War.[5]

After the War he became Commander of 5th Infantry Brigade from 1919[5] 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.[2] He became General Officer Commanding 2nd Division in 1931 and then General Officer Commanding-in-Chief for Western Command in 1936 before retiring in 1939.[2]

He was Colonel of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment from 1935 to 1948.[6]

Family

In 1919, he married Dorothy Nina Seymour RRC (1882–1953), one of five children of General Lord William Frederick Ernest Seymour and his wife, Lady Eva (née Eva Anna Caroline Douglas-Pennant). Dorothy Seymour served with the Voluntary Aid Detachment and British Red Cross Society during the First World War. She gained the rank of Junior Commander between 1939 and 1942 in the Auxiliary Territorial Service. She died on 7 January 1953, aged 70.[7]

References

  1. ^ "No. 34877". The London Gazette (Supplement). 18 June 1940. p. 3765.
  2. ^ a b c d "Henry Jackson". Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives. Archived from the original on 19 September 2012. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
  3. ^ "No. 27039". The London Gazette. 3 January 1899. p. 7.
  4. ^ "No. 26941". The London Gazette. 22 February 1898. p. 1121.
  5. ^ a b "Army Commands" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 July 2015.
  6. ^ "Colonels". The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
  7. ^ Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003.

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Military offices Preceded bySir Percival Wilkinson GOC 50th (Northumbrian) Division 1918–1920 Succeeded bySir Percival Wilkinson Preceded byAlan John Hunter Commandant of the Small Arms School March–August 1926 Succeeded byArthur McNamara Preceded byThomas Cubitt GOC 2nd Division 1931−1935 Succeeded byArchibald Wavell Honorary titles Preceded byRudolph Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan Colonel of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment 1935−1958 Succeeded bySir Reginald Denning Military offices Preceded bySir Walter Kirke GOC-in-C Western Command 1936−1939 Succeeded bySir Robert Haining Preceded bySir Robert Haining GOC-in-C Western Command May–June 1940 Succeeded bySir Robert Gordon-Finlayson
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