JACKSON, Ernest Stanley
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Known as:
Jacko
Rank:
Fusilier (later Lance Corporal)
Unit / Base:
4 Commando
Prior Police Service:
Metropolitan Police
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Fusiliers
Service:
Army
Number:
6482265
Born:
Saturday, July 20, 1918
Died:
1996
Place died:
Cockermouth, Cumbria
Fusilier Ernest Jackson was wounded June 1944 during operations in Normandy, France.
In 1939 Ernest was a Metropolitan Police Constable residing at the Police Section House, Crawford Place, Marylebone, London. He volunteered for the Commandos as part of the 1st Police Intake in 1942. Post war member of the Commando Association who record his final military rank as Lance Corporal.
Sources
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/77.
The 1939 Register covering Marylebone.
Obituaries in Commando Association newsletter 102 (March 1996).
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