Henry Jackson (British Army officer)

British Army officer

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

Sir Henry Jackson

Henry Jackson, 1935

Born| 12 August 1879
Died| 19 October 1972 (aged 93)
Allegiance|  United Kingdom
Service/branch|  British Army
Years of service| 1899−1939
Rank| General
Service number| 14063[1]
Unit| Bedfordshire Regiment
Commands held| 50th (Northumbrian) Division
5th Infantry Brigade
2nd Division
Western Command
Battles/wars| First World War
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[edit]

King George V inspecting the 13th (Scottish Horse) Battalion, Black Watch (149th Brigade, 50th Division) 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 he became Commander of 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]

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

## Family[edit]

In 1919, he married Dorothy Nina Seymour RRC (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[edit]

1. ^ "No. 34877". The London Gazette (Supplement). 18 June 1940. p. 3765.
2. ^ a b c d "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. ^ a b "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.

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Military offices

Preceded by

Sir Percival Wilkinson

|  GOC 50th (Northumbrian) Division
1918–1920  | 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