1918-2008: Ninety Years of Remembrance

Soldier Record

Richard Jackson

Contributed by: Richard Lowe Jackson, on 2008-11-08

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Rank
First Name Richard
Surname Jackson
Year of Birth 1882
Year of Death 1959
Regiment Manchester Regiment
Place of Wartime Residence Cheshire

Richard's Story

Richard was my great grandad and died the year I was born. He was a cloth padder and before the war, travelled to Germany for a trade delegation. He signed up for the war with his brother-in-law without telling their wives.

Other memories

Tom Jackson, Frodsham 2008-11-12

The brother in law in question is my great great grandfather he definetely went to the Manchester regiment with his brother and lived in Cheshire I have a picture of them at my Grandfather's house.

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