Henry Jackson (British Army officer)

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Sir Henry Jackson
Born12 August 1879
Died19 October 1972 (aged 93)
AllegianceUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
Service/branchFlag of the British Army.svg British Army
RankGeneral
UnitFirst World War
Commands held50th (Northumbrian) Division
5th Infantry Brigade
2nd Division
Western Command
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[]

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

After the War he became Commander of 5th Infantry Brigade from 1919[2] 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.[1] 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.[1]

He was Colonel of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment from 1935 to 1948.[3]

He lived at Piddletrenthide near Dorchester in Dorset.[4]

Family[]

In 1919 he married Dorothy Nina Seymour.[4]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d "Henry Jackson". Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives. Archived from the original on 19 September 2012. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
  2. ^ a b Army Commands Archived 5 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "Colonels". The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
  4. ^ a b The Peerage.com
Military offices
Preceded by GOC 50th (Northumbrian) Division
1918–1920
Succeeded by
Preceded by General Officer Commanding the 2nd Division
1931–1935
Succeeded by
Preceded by
Sir Walter Kirke
GOC-in-C Western Command
1936–1939
Succeeded by
Preceded by GOC-in-C Western Command
May–June 1940
Succeeded by
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