Henry Jackson (British Army officer) facts for kids
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Sir Henry Jackson
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Henry Jackson, 1935
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| Born | 12 August 1879 |
| Died | 19 October 1972 (aged 93) |
| Allegiance |  United Kingdom |
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 British Army |
| Years of service | 1899−1939 |
| Rank | General |
| Service number | 14063 |
| Unit | Bedfordshire Regiment |
| Commands held | 50th (Northumbrian) Division 5th Infantry Brigade 2nd Division Western Command |
| Battles/wars | First World War |
| Awards | Knight 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. He then became Adjutant at the Mounted Infantry School at Longmoor in 1908. He became General Officer Commanding 50th (Northumbrian) Division on the Western Front in April 1918 during the First World War.
After the War he became Commander of 5th Infantry Brigade from 1919 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. 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.
He was Colonel of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment from 1935 to 1948.
Family
In 1919, he married Dorothy Nina Seymour RRC (1882–1953), one of five children of General Lord William Frederick Ernest Seymour and his wife, Lady Eva (née Eva Anna Caroline Douglas-Pennant). Dorothy Seymour served with the Voluntary Aid Detachment and British Red Cross Society during the First World War. She gained the rank of Junior Commander between 1939 and 1942 in the Auxiliary Territorial Service. She died on 7 January 1953, aged 70.
