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World War 1 One ww1 wwII greatwar great 1914 1918 first battalion regiment
Gnr. Benjamin Jackson
British Army 190th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:93 Clifton Rd., Southport
(d.24th October 1917)
Ben Jackson with his wife Rose.
Benjamin Jackson was born on 28th of January 1888. Before the war he was a house painter. He married Rose Ellen Cleaton on 1st September 1913 in St Pauls Church, Dolfor, Montgomeryshire, Wales.Letter to his wife Rose Ellen Jackson.
B.E.F., France. 27.10.17
Dear Mrs Jackson
I am very sorry to have to send you very bad news, and I fear it will be a terrible shock to you to hear that your husband Gunner B. Jackson was killed by a shell about 11.30am on Wednesday 24th. The Battery was being shelled at the time and he was in a dugout with two other men, when a direct hit destroyed the dugout killing Gunner Jackson instantly, also another gunner and the third gunner severely wounded. Although he had not been long with the Battery, he was doing good work, and is a great loss to me. He was buried at the Military Cemetery at Dichebush (Dickebusch) by the Chaplin and as many of his comrades as possible were present. His effects will be returned to you in due course. Please accept my deep sympathy and that of the whole Battery.
Believe me yours truly Francis I. Ryan Major R. G. A.
Ben is buried at the Huts Cemetery, 6km south west of Ieper, West Flanders, Belgium. His wife never remarried and died in 1967. She was may mother's aunt and I always knew her as aunty Rose in my childhood.
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