Henry Jackson (British Army officer)

In this article, the surname is Jackson, not Cholmondeley Jackson.

Sir Henry Jackson
Henry Jackson in 1935
Born	(1879-08-12)12 August 1879
Died	19 October 1972(1972-10-19) (aged 93)
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service / branch	British Army
Years of service	1899–1939 1940
Rank	General
Service number	14063[1]
Unit	Bedfordshire Regiment
Commands	Western Command (1936–39; 1940) 2nd Division (1931–35) Small Arms School (1926) 5th Infantry Brigade (c. 1919–20) 50th (Northumbrian) Division (1918–19)
Battles / wars	First World War Second World War
Awards	Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George Distinguished Service Order Mentioned in Despatches

General Sir Henry Cholmondeley Jackson, KCB, CMG, DSO (12 August 1879 – 19 October 1972) was a British Army officer who achieved high office in the 1930s.

Military career

King George V inspecting the 13th (Scottish Horse) Battalion, Black Watch on the Maubeuge-Avesnes road. With the King are General Sir Henry Rawlinson, Major General Henry Cholmondeley Jackson and Brigadier General Percy M. Robinson.

Jackson was commissioned into the 1st Bedfordshire Regiment in 1899.[2][3][4] He then became adjutant at the Mounted Infantry School at Longmoor in 1908.[2] He became General Officer Commanding 50th (Northumbrian) Division on the Western Front in April 1918 during the First World War.[5]

After the war Jackson became commander of the 5th Infantry Brigade from 1919,[5] 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.[2] 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.[2]

Jackson was Colonel of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment from 1935 to 1948.[6]

Family

In 1919, Jackson married Dorothy Nina Seymour (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.[7]

References

1. "No. 34877". The London Gazette (Supplement). 18 June 1940. p. 3765.
2. "Henry Jackson". Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives. Archived from the original on 19 September 2012. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
3. "No. 27039". The London Gazette. 3 January 1899. p. 7.
4. "No. 26941". The London Gazette. 22 February 1898. p. 1121.
5. "Army Commands" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 July 2015.
6. "Colonels". The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
7. Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003.

Military offices
Preceded by Sir Percival Wilkinson	GOC 50th (Northumbrian) Division 1918–1919	Succeeded by Sir Percival Wilkinson
Preceded by Alan John Hunter	Commandant of the Small Arms School March–August 1926	Succeeded by Arthur McNamara
Preceded by Thomas Cubitt	GOC 2nd Division 1931–1935	Succeeded by Archibald Wavell
Honorary titles
Preceded by Rudolph Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan	Colonel of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment 1935–1958	Succeeded by Sir Reginald Denning
Military offices
Preceded by Sir Walter Kirke	GOC-in-C Western Command 1936–1939	Succeeded by Sir Robert Haining
Preceded by Sir Robert Haining	GOC-in-C Western Command May–June 1940	Succeeded by Sir Robert Gordon-Finlayson