Godfrey Gavin Jackson

History while in the forces

Nov 1916: wounded on the Somme
Winter 1916: invalided home
Spring 1917: training recruits
Jan 1918: 6 Hut "A" Company 12th Officer Cadet Battalion Newmarket
Jul 1918: Kinmel Park, Rhyl - Horne Bay - Commission 4th Reserve Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Sep 1918: on active service in France with 14th Royal Welsh Fusiliers
08 Oct 1918: 1.30 wounded by shrapnel, Villers Ontreaux, and carried on for five hours until he collapsed from loss of blood, all other officers having become casualties. Now in hospital at Liverpool
Surname
Jackson
Forename
Godfrey Gavin
Service number
[68522]
Rating or rank
2nd Lieutenant[Private]
Regiment or Other Unit
14th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers, [54th Company Machine Gun Corps]
Branch
Metropolitan Bank branch, Worcester
Date of Birth
20 Aug 1897
Date of birth
1897
Date of Entering Bank's Service
Oct 1913
Date of Joining HM Forces
Aug 1916