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British Army officer

In this article, the surname is Jackson, not Cholmondeley Jackson.
Sir Henry Jackson
Henry Jackson in 1935
Born(1879-08-12)12 August 1879
Died19 October 1972(1972-10-19) (aged 93)
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service / branchBritish Army
Years of service1899–1939
1940
RankGeneral
Service number14063
UnitBedfordshire Regiment
CommandsWestern Command (1936–39; 1940)
2nd Division (1931–35)
Small Arms School (1926)
5th Infantry Brigade (c. 1919–20)
50th (Northumbrian) Division (1918–19)
Battles / warsFirst World War
Second World War
AwardsKnight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George
Distinguished Service Order
Mentioned in Despatches

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

Military career

King George V inspecting the 13th (Scottish Horse) Battalion, Black Watch 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. He then became adjutant at the Mounted Infantry School at Longmoor in 1908. He became General Officer Commanding 50th (Northumbrian) Division on the Western Front in April 1918 during the First World War.

After the war Jackson became commander of the 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 became General Officer Commanding 2nd Division in 1931 and then General Officer Commanding-in-Chief for Western Command in 1936 before retiring in 1939.

Jackson was Colonel of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment from 1935 to 1948.

Family

In 1919, Jackson married Dorothy Nina Seymour (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.

References

  1. "No. 34877". The London Gazette (Supplement). 18 June 1940. p. 3765.
  2. ^ "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. ^ "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.
Military offices
Preceded bySir Percival Wilkinson GOC 50th (Northumbrian) Division
1918–1919 		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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