Medal card
(1) Pte. - Honourable Artillery Company - no.6609. (2) 2/Lt. - 25th London Regt.
First served France 2.10.16.
Died 27.9.18.
Card address - Miss K. Jackson (sister), 202 Brixton Hill, London SW2.
Name: |
Francis
Jackson |
Death Date: |
27 Sep 1918 |
Rank: |
2/Lieutenant |
Regiment: |
London Regiment |
Battalion: |
25th (County of London) Battalion (Cyclist) |
Type of Casualty: |
Killed in action |
[Soldiers Died in the Great War, 1914-1919]
In Memory of
Second Lieutenant F JACKSON
London Regiment (Cyclists) attd. 2nd/20th Bn., London Regiment
who died on 27 September 1918
Remembered with honour
Ruyaulcourt Military
Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. Grave Ref. N. 23.
Commemorated in perpetuity by
the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Ruyaulcourt Military Cemetery,
Pas de Calais, France.
Ruyaulcourt village was attacked by the 7th D.C.L.I. on the 28th/29th
March 1917 and found unoccupied the next night by the 7th Somerset Light
Infantry. It was lost again on the 23rd March 1918 and finally cleared
by the New Zealand Division on the 4th September 1918.
Ruyaulcourt
German
Cemetery
was used from July 1916, to March 1917, and in August 1918; and it
contained 405 German graves and those of two R.A.F. officers, two
soldiers from the
United Kingdom
and one
New Zealand
soldier. It was removed in 1924, and two of the British graves were
brought into the
Military
Cemetery
.
Ruyaulcourt
Military
Cemetery
was begun in April 1917, and used by fighting units and Field Ambulances
(largely of the 42nd (
East Lancashire
) Division) until March 1918. It was re-opened in September 1918. There
are now over 300, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of
these, 10 are unidentified and special memorials are erected to the two
airmen buried in the
German
Cemetery
, whose graves could not be found. The Cemetery covers an area of 1,608
square metres and is enclosed by a rubble wall.
Ruyaulcourt is a village in the Department of the
Pas-de-Calais 11 kilometres east of Bapaume on the D7 and 19 kilometres
south-west of Cambrai. The Cemetery lies 500 metres north of Ruyaulcourt
village along an unmarked road, but is signposted to the left by the
village church as you enter Ruyaulcourt from Bapaume.
[Courtesy of
Commonwealth War Graves Commission]
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