Henry Jackson (British Army officer)

Sir Henry Jackson
Born	12 August 1879
Died	19 October 1972 (aged 93)
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Rank	General
Unit	World War I
Commands held	50th (Northumbrian) Division 5th Infantry Brigade 2nd Division Western Command
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.^[1] He then became Adjutant at the Mounted Infantry School at Longmoor in 1908.^[1] He served in World War I and by the end of the War had become General Officer Commanding 50th (Northumbrian) Division.^[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 was appointed Commander 2nd Division in 1931, Colonel of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment in 1935^[3] and then General Officer Commanding-in-Chief for Western Command in 1936. He retired in 1939.^[1]

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

Family

In 1919 he married Dorothy Nina Seymour.^[4]

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