Ernest James Jackson

Forenames

Ernest James AWMM

Surname

Jackson AWMM

Also known as

Ernie AWMM

Service number

WWI 21023 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Religion

Church of England, Christian AWMM

Birth

28 May 1889 AWMM

Address before enlistment

Unknown AWMM Jubilee Avenue, Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

Frederick Ernest Jackson (father), Jubilee Avenue, Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 19 Aug 1916 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 21023 AWMM

Military service

New Zealand Rifle Brigade, 4th Battalion, B Company, 3rd AWMM

Military training

Lewis Gun school July 1918 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Farmer/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 19 Aug 1916-24 Oct 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 61 AWMM Vessel was Aparima AWMM Rifleman AWMM 10th Reinforcements, 1st Battalion, E Company AWMM New Zealand Rifle Brigade AWMM

Medical notes

• Height, Unknown Period AWMM
  5 foot 4 inches AWMM
• Eye colour, Unknown Period AWMM
  Blue AWMM
• Weight, Unknown Period AWMM
  9 stone 7 pounds AWMM
• Hair colour, Unknown Period AWMM
  Dark grey AWMM
• Complexion, Unknown Period AWMM
  brown AWMM
• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  5 September 1917 accidentally broke fibula while wrestling with comrade in France AWMM
• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  Sent to various hospitals in England from Etaples including Walton and Hornchurch AWMM
• Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Rifleman AWMM
New Zealand Rifle Brigade AWMM

Death

22 Aug 1918 AWMM
Age  30 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Cemetery

Queens Cemetery, Bucquoy, Pas-de-Calais, France AWMM III. A. 9. AWMM

Obituary

Obituary: Auckland Grammar School Chronicle. Third Term, 1918. AWMM

Memorial name

• Auckland Grammar School War Memorial, New Zealand AWMM
• Roll of Honour, Holy Trinity (Anglican) Church, 20 Church Street, Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
• Roll of Honour, Devonport Primary School, granite tablet, 18 Kerr Street, Devonport, Auckland AWMM
• Mercury Bay World War One Memorial AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Related objects

Related Serviceperson

External links

• Archives New Zealand.
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz
  Sources Used
• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R18052449
  Further Reference
• Ministry for Culture and Heritage, New Zealand History online. Devonport School War Memorial.
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/memorial/devonport-school-first-world-war-memorial
  Further Reference
• Devonport First World War memorial
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/memorial/devonport-first-world-war-memorial
  Further Reference
• The New Zealand Heritage List. War Memorial, Auckland Grammar School, Mountain Road, Epsom, Auckland.
  http://www.heritage.org.nz/the-list/details/4472
  Further Reference
• Parish of Devonport, Auckland, (Anglican), Holy Trinity and St Augustine's Churches
  http://www.holytrinity.gen.nz/index.html
  Further Reference
• Auckland University College Roll of Honour.
  http://www.specialcollections.auckland.ac.nz/ww1-centenary/roll-of-honour/search?page=693
  Further Reference
• Devonport War Memorial Index, Auckland Council Archives
  http://www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/dbtw-wpd/CityArchives/FamilyHistory/DBC859/searchdevonport.htm
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/558637/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/558637
  Further Reference

References

• Connolly, A., & Stanes, P. Rememberance: Auckland Grammar School Great War Roll of Honour. Vols 1 & 2. Auckland: Petand Prodctions.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  38: 28
• Auckland Grammar School Chronicle. Auckland, N.Z.: Auckland Grammar School.
  1918, Third term. p. 23
• A.U.C. roll of honour, 1914 - 1920. MSS & Archives E-2, Special Collections, University of Auckland Libraries and Learning Services.
• Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
  Vol. 1: Includes portrait
• The Fields of Remembrance Trust: Brothers Field, Auckland Museum (Armistice, 2018)
• Scadden, J. (2018). Broken branches : New Zealand families who lost three or more children in the Great War.
• Information kindly provided by family
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Austin, W. (1924). The official history of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade (The Earl of Liverpool's Own). Wellington, N.Z.: L T Watkins.