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Pte. George William Jackson

British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Sussex Regiment

from:Haydock, Lancashire

(d.7th Sep 1916)

George Jackson was a miner who enlisted at Earlestown, Lancashire, and was assigned to the Royal Sussex Regiment. He was a volunteer in his early 40s and if he had waited to be conscripted in 1916 he would have been exempt on age grounds. He was badly wounded during the Battle of the Somme, and died in hospital at Rouen on 7th September 1916. He is interred at St Sever military cemetery at Rouen.



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